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                | 371. | All of the following are point defects EXCEPT: |  
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				| A. | vacancies | B. | dislocations |  
				 				 | C. | interstitials | D. | isolated impurities |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option B Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 372. | Ligancy is |  
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				| A. | the number of atoms (or ions) surrounding and touching a central atom | B. | a covalent bond between two atoms |  
				 				 | C. | the angle betweent he two closest directional bond of an atom | D. | None of the above |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option A Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 373. | The statement that, at equilibrium, the number of phases plus the degrees of freedom must equal the number of components plus two is known as |  
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				| A. | Gibbs phase rule | B. | Lever rule |  
				 				 | C. | Fick's rule | D. | Heisenberg rule |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option A Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 374. | A ductile fracture is usually not preceded by |  
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				| A. | plastic flow | B. | deformation |  
				 				 | C. | noise | D. | large amounts of non-recoverable energy absorption |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option C Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 375. | Gel is |  
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				| A. | a polymer having side groups distributed randomly along a vinyl polymer chain | B. | a polymer having secondary chains branching from the main molecular chains |  
				 				 | C. | A solid frme work of colloidal particles linked together and containing a fluid in its interstices | D. | a polymer in which the repeating unit of each moleule has viny group |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option C Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 376. | A composite bar of steel and copper is heated. The copper bar will be under |  
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				| A. | compression | B. | tension |  
				 				 | C. | torsion | D. | shear |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option A Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 377. | In Charpy impact test, the specimen is held as a |  
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				| A. | cantilever | B. | simply supported beam |  
				 				 | C. | fixed beam | D. | hinged beam |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option B Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 378. | Which type of thermostat is generally used in applicances with heating elements? |  
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				| A. | Bimetallic | B. | Magnetic |  
				 				 | C. | Clad metal | D. | Ferromagenetic |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option A Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 379. | Bakelite is |  
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				| A. | a semi-conductor | B. | uncombustible |  
				 				 | C. | a low resistance conducted | D. | a polarised insulator |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option B Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 380. | The behaviour of visco-elastic materials is |  
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				| A. | time dependent | B. | temperature dependent |  
				 				 | C. | orientation dependent | D. | age-dependent |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option A Explanation:    |  
 
 
			
			
 
 
 
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