Syllabus Edition
First teaching 2023
First exams 2025
When the following equation is balanced correctly, using the smallest whole number coefficients, which row represents the coefficients?
__ Mg3N2 (s) + __H2O (l) → __Mg(OH)2 (aq) + __NH3 (aq)
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Mg3N2 |
H2O |
Mg(OH)2 |
NH3 |
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A |
1 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
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B |
1 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
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C |
2 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
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D |
2 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
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Which one of the following is the correct net ionic equation for the reaction between CaCl2 and AgNO3?
Ca2+ (aq) + 2AgNO3 (aq) → 2Ag+ (s) + Ca(NO3)2 (aq)
CaCl2 (aq) + 2Ag+ (aq) → 2AgCl (s) + Ca2+ (aq)
Ca2+ (aq) + 2NO3- (aq) → Ca(NO3)2 (aq)
Ag+ (aq) + Cl - (aq) → AgCl (s)
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Which one of the following is the correct net ionic equation for the reaction between NaC2H3O2 (aq) and HCl (aq)?
C2H3O2- (aq) + HCl (aq) → CCl - (aq) + 2H2 (aq) + CO2 (aq)
C2H3O2- (aq) + H+ (aq) → HC2H3O2 (aq)
Na+ (aq) + Cl - (aq) → NaCl (aq)
NaC2H3O2 (aq) + H+ (aq) → HC2H3O2(aq) + Na+ (aq)
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Silicon reacts with chlorine gas to produce silicon chloride.
How many moles of chlorine gas are needed to react with 1 mole of silicon?
2
3
4
5
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When calcium carbonate is heated it decomposes according to the following equation
CaCO3 (s) → CaO(s) + CO2(g)
If 6.00 g of calcium carbonate is heated and produces 2.73 g of calcium oxide, what is the percentage yield of calcium oxide? (Mr CaCO3 = 100.09; CaO = 56.08)
18%
81%
90%
0.81%
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Hydrogen and chlorine react according to the following equation:
H2 (g) + Cl2 (g) → 2HCl (g)
When 1.5 moles of chlorine reacts with 2.0 moles of hydrogen, what will be the result?
3.5 mol of HCl
1.5 mol of HCl and 0.5 mol of H2
2.0 mol of HCl and 0.5 mol of Cl2
3.0 mol of HCl and 0.5 mol of H2
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25.0 cm3 of hydrochloric acid solutions reacts with 36.2 cm3 of 0.225 mol dm-3 sodium hydroxide solution.
What is the concentration of the acid?
0.33 mol dm–3
0.16 mol dm–3
1.55 x 10–4 mol dm–3
3.26 x 10–4 mol dm–3
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A solution of sodium chloride is made by adding 300 cm3 of water to a flask containing 200 cm3 of 0.50 mol dm-3 sodium chloride. What is the concentration of the resulting solution?
0.05 mol dm-3
0.1 mol dm-3
0.2 mol dm-3
0.3 mol dm-3
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What is the number of molecules in 500 cm3 of oxygen under standard conditions?
3.01 x 1023
6.02 x 1023 x 500
2.73 x 1024
1.33 x 1022
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Oxidation of ammonia by oxygen is the first step in the manufacture of nitric acid, which is used in the production of the synthetic material nylon.
wO2 (g) + xNH3 (g) → yNO (g) + zH2O (g)
Which values for w, x, y and z balance this equation?
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w |
x |
y |
z |
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A B C D |
5 6 6 5 |
4 4 5 6 |
4 4 5 6 |
6 5 4 4 |
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Natural gas contains on average 5.5 mg / m3 of sulfur in the form of hydrogen sulfide, H2S (Mr = 34.09).
If a typical household in the UK consumes 0.198 m3 of gas per day, what is the average annual emission of sulfur in g per household?
397.485 g
0.423 g
0.397 g
0.374 g
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The coefficient for copper when the following equation is balanced is:
_Cu + _HNO3 → _Cu(NO3)2 + _NO + _H2O
1
2
3
4
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Excess dilute hydrochloric acid is added separately to equal masses of the four metals, calcium, zinc, magnesium and strontium. Which metal will give off the largest volume of hydrogen gas in the reaction?
calcium
zinc
magnesium
strontium
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When a 1.00 g sample of carbon is burned in a limited supply of oxygen, 0.72 g of the carbon combusts to form CO2 and 0.28 g of the carbon combusts to form CO.
These gases were passed through excess NaOH(aq) which absorbs the CO2, but not the CO. The remaining gas was then dried and collected.
Assuming that all gas volumes were taken at 25˚C and 100 kPa pressure, what was the volume of gas at the end of the reaction? (Molar Volume of a gas at stp = 22.7 dm3)
0.01 dm3
100 cm3
2.27 dm3
227 cm3
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Chicken eggs are made up of 5% by mass of egg shell. The average egg has a mass of 50 g.
Assume that chicken eggshell is pure calcium carbonate.
How many complete chicken’s egg shells would need to neutralise 50 cm3 of 2.0 mol dm-3 ethanoic acid?
4
3
2
1
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When a sample of potassium oxide, K2O, is dissolved in 250 cm3 of distilled water, 25 cm3 of this solution is titrated against sulfuric acid with a concentration of 2.00 mol dm-3. Complete neutralisation takes place with 15 cm3 of sulfuric acid.
What is the mass of the original sample of potassium oxide dissolved in 250 cm3 of distilled water?
14.13 g
0.11 g
28.26 g
0.28 g
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Iron and chromium can be made into an alloy called ferrochrome. Ferrochrome can be dissolved in dilute sulfuric acid to produce FeSO4 and Cr2(SO4)3. The FeSO4 reacts with acidified K2Cr2O7 as shown in this equation:
14H+ + 6Fe2+ + Cr2O72- → 2Cr3+ + 6Fe3+ + 7H2O
When 1.00 g of ferrochrome is dissolved in dilute sulfuric acid and then titrated, 13.1 cm3 of 0.100 mol dm-3 K2Cr2O7 is needed for the complete reaction.
In the sample of ferrochrome, what is the percentage by mass of Fe?
43.90%
0.44%
7.32%
4.39 %
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Some fireworks can use the reaction between aluminium powder and anhydrous barium nitrate as a propellant. Metal oxides and nitrogen are the only products when this happens.
10Al + 3Ba(NO3)2 → 5Al2O3 + 3BaO + 3N2
When 0.783 g of anhydrous barium nitrate (Mr 261.35) reacts with an excess of aluminium what is the volume of nitrogen produced in cm3?
(Molar volume of a gas at stp = 22.7 dm3)
204.03 cm3
7.58 cm3
0.01 cm3
68.01 cm3
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Excess acidified potassium dichromate(VI) was mixed with 2.76 g of ethanol. The reaction mixture was then boiled under reflux for one hour. Once the reaction had completed, the organic product was collected by distillation.
The yield of the product was 75.0%
What is the mass of the product collected?
3.60 g
2.70 g
4.80 g
1.59 g
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The concentration of calcium ions in a sample of water can be determined by using an ion-exchange column, shown in the diagram below:
A 50 cm3 sample of water containing dissolved calcium sulfate was passed through the ion-exchange resin.
Each calcium ion in the sample was exchanged for two hydrogen ions. The resulting acidic solution collected in the flask required 25 cm3 of 1.0 x 10-2 mol dm-3 potassium hydroxide for complete neutralisation.
What was the concentration of the calcium sulfate in the original sample?
0.01 mol dm–3
5.0 x 10–3 mol dm–3
2.5 mol dm–3
2.5 x 10–3 mol dm–3
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A 2.27 dm3 sample of nitrogen gas, measured under standard conditions, reacted with a large excess volume of hydrogen gas to produce ammonia. Only 20.0% of the nitrogen gas reacted to produce ammonia.
What mass of ammonia was made?
0.20 g
0.34 g
0.68 g
1.36 g
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Excess aqueous cold sodium hydroxide is reacted with 0.10 mol of chlorine gas, Cl2. One of the products is a compound of sodium, oxygen and chlorine.
What mass of the product is formed?
3.54 g
7.44 g
14.8 g
26.6 g
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When heated, anhydrous magnesium nitrate, Mg(NO3)2, will decompose into magnesium oxide and a mixture of gases shown in the following equation
2Mg(NO3)2 (s) → 2MgO (s) + 4NO2 (g) + O2 (g)
1.48 g of anhydrous magnesium nitrate is heated until no further reaction takes place.
What mass of nitrogen dioxide is produced?
0.92 g
0.46 g
1.48 g
1.84 g
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A hydrocarbon, X, was burned in excess oxygen to give carbon dioxide and water as the only products. 0.1mol of X produced 9.08dm3 of carbon dioxide at standard conditions.
What is the molecular formula of X?
CH4
C2H6
C3H8
C4H10
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A Group II metal of mass 0.65 g reacted with 606.9 cm3 of oxygen at 273 K and 100 kPa pressure, to form an oxide which contains O2– ions.
The molar mass of the metal is found using which of the following calculations?
0.02 g mol–1
24.31 g mol–1
17.38 g mol–1
211.95 g mol–1
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Solid fertilisers often contain the elements N, P and K in a ratio of 20 g : 30 g : 10 g per 100 g of fertiliser. It is recommended that the fertiliser is used at 14 g of fertiliser per 5 dm3 of water.
What is the concentration of nitrogen atoms in the solution?
0.02 mol dm-3
0.03 mol dm-3
0.04 mol dm-3
0.05 mol dm-3
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When lead sulfide reacts with oxygen it produces lead(II) oxide and sulfur dioxide according to the equation below:
PbS (s) + O2 (g) → PbO (s) + SO2 (g)
What is the whole number sum of the coefficients in the balanced equation?
4
5
8
9
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Some coal contains as much as 3% sulfur.
How much sulfur dioxide (Mr = 64.07 g mol-1) is produced by burning a lump of coal of mass 125 g? (Ar S = 32.07)
547.93 g
7.49 g
249.73 g
1.88 g
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The conversion of toxic emissions into harmless products takes place in catalytic converters as follows:
_CO (g) + _NO (g) → _CO2 (aq) + _N2 (g)
The sum of the coefficients is
4
5
6
7
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A compound is made of sulfur and oxygen only. A sample of the compound has a mass of 8.0 g and consists of 3.2 g of sulfur and 4.8 g of oxygen.
What is the empirical formula?
(RAMs S = 32.0, O = 16.0)
SO
SO2
SO3
S2O3
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Which of the following samples has the largest mass?
(RAMs, H = 1.01, N = 14.01, O = 16.00)
2.0 mol of NH4+
1.0 mol of H2S
1.0 mol of H2O2
2.0 mol of OH-
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