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CHEMISTRY
PAPER 3
PRACTICAL
JULY 2008
TIME: 2¼ HOURS

NAME: ________________________________________________________

ADM NO: _______________________________ CLASS: __________

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

Mock Examinations
Chemistry
Paper 3
Practical
2 ¼ Hours.

 Write your name and Adm No. in the spaces provided above.
 Answer ALL the questions in the spaces provided in the question paper.
 You are NOT allowed to start working with the apparatus for the first 15 minutes of the
2¼ hours allowed for this paper. This time is to enable you to read the question paper
and make sure you have all the chemicals and apparatus that you may need.
 All working MUST be clearly shown where necessary.
 Mathematical tables and electronic calculators may be used.

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1. You are provided with:

 Solution D1, a saturated solution of ethanedioic acid
 Solution D2, aqueous KMnO4
 Solution D3, 0.01M ammonium iron (II) sulphate
 1MH2SO4

You are required to standardize D2 and D3

Determine the solubility of D1 at room temperature.

Procedure I

Fill the burette with solution D2. Pipette 25cm3 of D3 into a conical flask. Add 2.0cm3 of
1M sulphuric acid using a measuring cylinder. Titrate solution D3 with solution D2 until a
permanent pale pink colour just appears. Repeat the procedure and complete the table
A below. (4mks)

Table A

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Final Burette reading (cm )
Initial burette readings (cm3)
Volume of D2 used (cm3)

(a) Calculate the average volume of D2 used (Imk)

(b) Given:MnO4(aq) + 5Fe2+(aq) + 8H+(aq) Mn2+(aq) + 5Fe3+(aq) + 3H2O(l)

(i) Calculate the number of moles of D3 used. (Imk)

(ii) Calculate the number of moles of D2 used (Imk)

(iii) Calculate the number of moles of D2 per litre (Imk)

Procedure II
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Measure 25cm3 of solution D1. Pour it into a conical flask and dilute it by adding 75cm 3
of distilled water. Label this solution D4. Fill the burette with D2. Pipette D4 into conical
flask add 2.0cm3 of 1M H2SO4 using a measuring cylinder. Heat the solution to about
70oC and titrate while hot with D2 until permanent pink colour just appears. Record
your results in the table B below. Repeat the procedure twice to complete the table.
(4mks)

I II II
Final Burette reading (cm3)
Initial burette readings (cm3)
Volume of D2 used (cm3)

(c) (i) Calculate the average volume of D2 used (Imk)

The reaction between manganate (VII) ions and ethandioate ions is

2MnO4-q) + 5C2O42-(aq) + 16H+(aq) 2Mn2+(aq) + 10CO2(g) + 8H2O(l)

(ii) Calculate the number of moles of MnO4- ions in the average volume of
D2 used (Imk)

(iii) Calculate the number of moles of ethanedioate ions in 25cm 3 of

solution D4 (Imk)

(iv) Calculate the number of moles of ethanedioate ions in 100cm 3 of

solution D4 (Imk)
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(v) How many moles of ethanedioate ions were in 25cm 3 of solution D1

used (Imk)

(vi) Given the molecular formula of ethanedioic is H2C2O4, calculate its

solubility in grams per 100cm3 of water at room temperature.
(H = 1, C = 12, O = 16) (2mks)

2. You are required to find out the effect of concentration of solution D2 on the
rate of reaction

Procedure

Using a burette, place 5cm3 of solution D2 into a boiling tube. To this solution add
5.0cm3 of solution D1 using a measuring cylinder and immediately start a stop watch
Shake the mixture and place the boiling tube on a test tube rack. Note and record the
time taken for the purple colour of the mixture to disappear. Repeat the procedure
using the volumes of solution D2 and solution D1 and distilled water as indicated in table
III below. (6mks)

Table III
Concentration of Volume of Volume of water Volume of Time for colour
D2 in mole per solution D2(cm3) (cm3) solution D1 change (sec)
litre
5.0 0.0 5.0
4.0 1.0 5.0
3.0 2.0 5.0
2.0 3.0 5.0
1.0 4.0 5.0
(a) Use the results to plot a graph of concentration in mole per litre
of D2 used against time taken for the colour change (4mks)
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(b) From the graph determine the time taken for the colour to change using
2.5cm3 of solution D2 and 2.5cm3 of solution D1 (3mks)

(c) Comment on the relationship between rate of reaction and concentration of

solution D2 (Imk)

3. You are provided with solid M2. Carry out the test below.
(a) Put a spatula full of solid M2 into a boiling tube. Add 5cm3 of distilled
water. Shake and divide the resulting mixture into 3 portions.
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Observations Inferences

(½mk) (½mk)

(i) To the first portion add dilute HCl followed by barium chloride solution

Observations Inferences

(½mk) (1½mks)

(ii) To the 2nd portion, add two drops of dilute HCl followed by a few drops of
silver nitrate solution then add NH3(aq)

Observations Inferences

(1mk) (1mk)

(iii) To the 3rd portion add dilute NaOH solution dropwise until excess

Observations Inferences

(½mk) (1½mks)