ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level

CHEMISTRY 5071/4
PAPER 4 Alternative to Practical

NOVEMBER 2009 SESSION 1 hour

1. An experiment was carried out to determine the percentage purity of a
sample of sodium carbonate.

A: is an impure solution of 3.8 g/dm 3 sodium carbonate.

B: is 1.0 mol dm3 hydrochloric acid

25.0 cm3 of A was pipetted into a conical flask. Methyl orange

indicator was added. Solution A was titrated with B from a burette.

The diagrams show the initial and final burette readings.

(a) Use the burette readings to complete the table of results.

Table of results

Titration number I II III

Final burette
reading / cm3
Initial burette
reading / cm3+
Volume of acid
B used / cm3

Tick the best titration results.

Summary

25.0 cm3 of A required _________________ cm3 of B. [4]

(b) Give the colour of methyl orange indicator

(i) before the end point

(ii) after the end point _______________________

(c) Write a balanced equation for the reaction.

[1]

(d) Calculate the number of moles of hydrochloric acid in the

volume of B used.

[1]

(e) Calculate the number of moles of sodium carbonate in the 25

cm3 fo A.

[1]

(f) (i) Calculate the number of moles of sodium carbonate in

one dm3.

[1]
3
(ii) Calculate the mass of sodium carbonate in one dm .

(Ar : Na = 23; C = 12; O = 16)

 [1]

(g) Use your answer in (f)(ii) and the mass concentration of A to

calculate the percentage purity of sodium carbonate.

[1]
[Total : 12]

2. An experiment was carried out to investigate the rise in temperature

produced when 1.0 moldm-3 sodium hydroxide was added to 1.5
moldm-3 nitric acid.

Experiment I

When 2 cm3 of sodium hydroxide was added to 25 cm 3 of nitric acid

the highest temperature recorded was 27oC.

Experiment 2, 5, 7 and 9.

Experiment I was repeated using 5 cm 3, 20 cm3, 30 cm3, and 40 cm3

of sodium hydroxide respectively.

The diagrams show the highest temperatures recorded.

 (a) Record the temperatures in the table of results.

Table of results

Experiment Number Volume of sodium Temperature / oC

hydroxide added / cm3
1 2.0 27.5
2 5.0
3 10.0 32.0
4 15.0 36.5
5 20.0
6 25.0 39.5
7 30.0
8 35.0 31.5
9 40.0
[2]

(b) Plot the results of the experiments on the grid below. Join up
the points with two straight lines.
 [3]
(c) Use your graph to answer the questions below.

(i) Deduce the highest temperature reached.

Indicate clearly on the graph how you obtained your

answer.

(ii) What volume of sodium hydroxide produced this highest

temperature?

[3]

(d) Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in (c)(ii).

[1]

(e) Suggest why the temperature begins to fall after reaching its
highest reading.
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[Total: 8]

3. A student thoroughly mixed 100 cm 3 of 0.02 mol / dm3 silver nitrate,

AgNO3 and 50 cm3 of 0.10 mol / dm3 barium chloride, BaCl2.

A precipitate of silver chloride was formed.

(a) Write an ionic equation for the reaction.

[1]

(b) What is the colour of the precipitate?

[1]

(c) How could the precipitate be removed from the mixture?

[1]

(d) Calculate the number of moles of silver nitrate and barium

chloride used in this experiment.

(i) Silver nitrate

 (ii) Barium chloride

[2]

(e) (i) Deduce the number of moles of silver chloride formed.

(ii) Calculate the mass of silver chloride formed.

(Ar : Ag = 108; Cl = 35.5)

[2]
[Total : 6]

4. What chemical tests can be used to distinguish between the following

pairs of substances?

(a) (i) sulphur dioxide gas and chlorine gas

sulphur dioxide

Test ______________________________

______________________________

Observation ______________________________
 ______________________________

chlorine gas

Test ______________________________

______________________________

Observation ______________________________

______________________________

(ii) aqueous ammonium sulphate and barium sulphate

Ammonium sulphate

Test ______________________________

______________________________

Observation ______________________________

______________________________

barium sulphate

Test ______________________________

______________________________

Observation ______________________________

______________________________

(iii) limestone and slaked lime

limestone

Test ______________________________
 ______________________________

Observation ______________________________

______________________________

slaked lime

Test _______________________________

_______________________________

Observation _______________________________

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[Total : 9]

5. Salt D was tested.

The tests on D are in the following table.

Complete the table

Tests Observations Conclusion

(a) D was dissolved in
water. The solution was green solution __________________
divided into three parts.
(b) To the first part
_____________ ___________________
_____________ ___________________ SO2-4
_____________ ___________________
_____________ ___________________
(c) To the second part
aqueous sodium ___________________ Fe2+
hydroxide was added ___________________
until in excess ___________________
(d) To the third part ___________________
aqueous ammonia was ___________________ Fe2+
added until in excess ___________________
 [12]

6. The diagram below shows apparatus used in the electrolysis of a

concentrated aqueous solution of copper (II) chloride using inert
electrodes.

(a) Name a suitable material for the inert electrodes.

_____________________________________________

_____________________________________________ [1]

(b) State two observations made at electrode A.

Observation

1 _________________________________________

2 _________________________________________

_________________________________________ [2]
 (c) Name the product E.

______________________________________________

______________________________________________ [1]

(d) Write the ionic equation for the formation of E.

______________________________________________

______________________________________________ [2]
(e) Describe a chemical test of E.

Test

______________________________________________

______________________________________________

Observation

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______________________________________________ [2]

(f) The volume of E formed was measured at regular intervals for a

duration of twenty minutes. The results obtained are shown in
the table below.

Time/min 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Volume 0 6 9 18 61 83 94 98 98 98 98
3
of E/cm

Plot a graph of volume of E against time.

(g) Use the graph to determine the volume of E formed after nine
minutes.

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(h) Explain why the volume of E remains constant after fourteen

minutes.

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