Life Sciences
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Question 16
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Buffalo milk having density of 1030 kg m⁻³ is homogenized with a pressure of 30 MPa. Given, acceleration due to gravity as 9.81 m s⁻² and assuming no pressure loss, the velocity (m s⁻¹) of the milk flowing through the homogenizer valve will be __________ (round off to 2 decimal places).
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Potato slices have been dehydrated from an initial solid content of 12% to a final solid content of 94%. If the peeling and other losses are to the tune of 10%, final yield (per cent) of the dried chips per ton of fresh potato taken is __________ (round off to 2 decimal places).
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A mixed fruit beverage with 12 °Brix having specific heat of 4298 J kg⁻¹ K⁻¹ is being heated from 30 °C to 95 °C for pasteurization at a flow rate of 1000 L h⁻¹ in a tubular heat exchanger. Steam at 100 °C is used as heating medium which is converted into condensate at 100 °C. If the density of beverage is 1075 kg m⁻³ and the latent heat of steam at the given temperature is 2257 kJ kg⁻¹, the mass flow rate of steam (kg min⁻¹) is ______ (round off to 2 decimal places).
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Room air is at 40 °C with 60% relative humidity. Saturated vapour pressure of water at 40 °C is 7.375 kPa. Humid volume of air (m³ per kg of dry air) is ____________ (round off to 3 decimal places).
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Freezing of 100 mm spherical meat ball with 60% moisture at 35 °C is being done in an air blast freezer maintained at -45 °C. Given, latent heat of fusion for water is 333.2 kJ kg⁻¹, thermal conductivity of meat is 1.5 W m⁻¹ °C⁻¹, convective heat transfer coefficient is 40 W m⁻² °C⁻¹, density of frozen meat is 980 kg m⁻³ and initial freezing temperature of meat ball is -10 °C. Using Plank’s equation, freezing time (h) is ____________ (round off to 2 decimal places).
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“Going by the ______ that many hands make light work, the school ______ involved all the students in the task.”
The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are
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“Her ______ should not be confused with miserliness; she is ever willing to assist those in need.”
The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is
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Seven machines take 7 minutes to make 7 identical toys. At the same rate, how many minutes would it take for 100 machines to make 100 toys?
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A rectangle becomes a square when its length and breadth are reduced by 10 m and 5 m, respectively. During this process, the rectangle loses 650 m² of area. What is the area of the original rectangle in square meters?
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A number consists of two digits. The sum of the digits is 9. If 45 is subtracted from the number, its digits are interchanged. What is the number?
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