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JETS OF ZAMBIA

KASEMPA BOYS’ BOARDING SECONDARY SCHOOL

CHEMISTRY OLYMPIAD – TERM 2 – 2019
TOTAL MARKS: 20 ATTEMPT ALL THE QUESTIONS
1. State the meaning of the following laws:
(a) Law of constant composition. [2]
(b) Law of multiple proportion. [2]
(c) Law of combining volume (also known as Gay – Lussac’s law). [2]
2. What mass of NaOH is required to prepare 1.5dm of a 0.01M NaOH solution?
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3. Concentrated sulphuric acid (commercial) is 96.4% H2SO4 by mass, and has a specific gravity of 1.84g/cm3.
Calculate the molarity of concentrated sulphuric acid. [4]
4. Naturally occurring Europium has two isotopes Eu – 151 and Eu – 153 whose relative abundance are 48%
and 52%, respectively. Calculate the relative atomic mass Europium using information in figure 4.1.

[4]
100%

% relative 52%
abundance
48%

150.92 152.92 m/e

5. The reaction described by expression (5.23) below is used to determine the sulphite ion concentration
present in wastewater from a papermaking plant.

The half – equations for the

above redox reaction
are:

(i) Balance the two half-equations. [4]

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(ii) Use the balanced half-equation in (i) to obtain a balanced equation for this reaction in an acidic
solution. [2]