Topic 12 - Salt Preparation

Chapter 3 - Sec 3.3

Applications
1. Which of the following reagents can be added to hydrochloric acid, HCl, to prepare zinc chloride,
ZnCl2?
a) Zn
b) ZnO
c) ZnCO3
d) ZnSO4
2. Which of the following reagents can be added to sulphuric acid, H2SO4, to prepare copper (II) sulphate,
CuSO4?
a) Cu
b) CuO
c) CuCO3
d) Cu(OH)2
3. Which of the following combination of reagents can be used to prepare silver sulphate?
a) Ag + H2SO4
b) AgNO3 + Na2SO4
c) Ag2CO3 + H2SO4
4. Which of the following reactions produce ammonia gas?
a) acid + base
b) ammonium salt + base
c) acid + metal carbonate
d) acid + metal
e) acid + metal sulfide

5. Which of the following reactions produces a pungent smelling gas that turns damp red litmus blue?
a) CaO + H2SO4
b) Ca(OH)2 + H2SO4
c) Ca + H2SO4
d) Ca(OH)2 + (NH4)2SO4
e) CaCO3 + H2SO4

6. Which of the following reactions produce (s) a gas?

a) acid + base
b) ammonium salt + base
c) acid + metal carbonate
d) acid + metal
e) acid + metal sulfide
f) acid + metal oxide
7. The reaction of a strong acid with a strong base to produce salt and water is called: neutralization

8. During preparation of silver iodide, AgI, by precipitation, what is the correct order of the steps?
a) mixing two aqueous solutions
b) filtration
c) stirring with a glass rod
d) drying residue in an oven
Correct order of steps is a, c, b, d

9. The pieces of apparatus needed during the preparation of sodium chloride, NaCl, by titration are:
a) stop clock, burette, dropper
b) balance, burette, beaker
c) flask, burette, pipette
d) pipette, balance, burette
e) pipette, stop clock, balance

10. During the titration of an acid with a base, the color change that occurs when phenolphthalein is used as
an indicator is
colorless to pink

11. During the titration of a acid with an base, the color change that occurs when methyl orange is used as
an indicator is
red to yellow

12. Dilute sulphuric acid is added to a mixture that contains magnesium, zinc and copper in a beaker. The
beaker is left for about 15 minutes and its contents are then filtered.
What does the filtrate contain?

Magnesium sulfate and zinc sulfate

13. Some reactions of substance M are shown below

magnesium
substance M

Identify substance M?

hydrogen

sodium carbonate

carbon dioxide

copper (II) oxide

copper (II) chloride

reacts with

Hydrochloric acid

14. Use the following statement to answer the questions below

Five methods are used for salt preparation:
Method A: using a burette and an indicator.
Method B: mixing two solutions to obtain a salt by precipitation
Method C: addition of an excess metal to a dilute acid then removing the excess by filtration.
Method D: addition of an excess metal oxide to a dilute acid then removing the excess by filtration.
Method E: addition of an excess metal carbonate to a dilute acid then removing the excess by filtration.

1) Name the chemical needed to be added to insoluble calcium oxide to form calcium sulphate.
Sulphuric acid

2) Which method can be used to prepare the soluble salt potassium chloride from potassium hydroxide?
Method A

3) Name the chemical needed to be added to lithium hydroxide to form lithium sulphate.
Sulfuric acid

4) Which method can be used to prepare the insoluble salt silver chloride from the soluble salt silver
nitrate?
Method B

5) Name the chemical added to silver nitrate to form silver chloride.

Sodium chloride

6) Which method can be used to prepare the soluble salt magnesium sulphate from the insoluble base
magnesium oxide?
Method D
7) Name the chemical needed to be added to insoluble calcium oxide to form calcium nitrate.
Nitric acid

8) Which method can be used to prepare the soluble salt sodium iodide from sodium hydroxide?
Method A

9) Name the chemical needed to be added to sodium hydroxide to form sodium chloride.
Hydrochloric acid

10) Which method can be used to prepare the insoluble salt lead (II) iodide from the soluble salt lead (II)
nitrate?
Method B

11) Name the chemical added to lead (II) nitrate to form lead (II) iodide.
Sodium iodide