Practice questions

1 What mass of magnesium oxide is formed on burning 2.00g of magnesium in

the presence of oxygen? (Ar of Mg = 24.3) Answer : 3.317 g

2 Calculate the mass of sodium hydroxide needed to produce 5 g of sodium sulphate by the
following neutralization reaction. (Ar of Na = 23, O =16, S = 32.1)

2 NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + 2H2O Answer : 2.816 g

3 Iron metal can displace copper metal from a copper(II) sulphate solution. (Ar of Fe = 55.8,
Cu = 63.5)

Fe(s) + CuSO4 (aq) FeSO4 (aq) + Cu (s)

i) Calculate the maximum amount of copper that can be displaced by 2.8 g of

iron?

ii) If only 2.7 g of pure copper was recovered from the experiment, what was
the % yield? Answers : i) 3.186 g ii) 84.7%

4  500g of copper was used to displace silver from a silver nitrate solution. (Ar
of Ag = 107.9, Cu = 63.5)

Cu(s) + 2AgNO3 (aq) Cu(NO3)2 (aq) + 2 Ag (s)

i) What is the maximum mass of silver that could be obtained from the
process?
ii) If 1.5 kg g of pure silver was extracted, what was the percentage yield of
silver? Answers: i) 1699.2 g ii) 88.28%

5 When sodium reacts with titanium chloride (TiCl4), sodium chloride (NaCl) and titanium (Ti) are produced.
a) Write the balanced equation for the reaction.
b) What mass of titanium is produced from 380 g of titanium chloride?

(Ar of Ti = 47.9, Cl = 35.5)

c) What mass of titanium is produced using 46.0 g of sodium?
(Ar of Na = 23.0)

Answers: b) 95.8 g c) 23.95 g

6 Ammonium nitrate decomposes on heating to give nitrogen(I) oxide and water as follows:

NH4NO3(s) N2O (g) + 2H2O (l)

a) What is the formula mass of ammonium nitrate?
b) How many moles of ammonium nitrate are present in 0.800 g of the solid?
c) What volume of N2O gas at room temp and pressure would be produced from this mass of ammonium
nitrate? Answers: a) 80 b) 0.01 mol c) 0.24 dm3
7 When ammonia gas and hydrogen chloride gas mix together, they react to form a solid called ammonium
chloride.
a) Write a balanced equation for this reaction, including state symbols.
b) Calculate the molar masses of ammonia, hydrogen chloride and ammonium chloride.
c) What volumes of ammonia and hydrogen chloride gases must react at r.t.p. in order to produce 10.7 g of
ammonium chloride? (1 mol of gas occupies 24 dm3 at r.t.p.)

Answers b) 17 g mol -1, 36.5 g mol -1 and 53.5 g mol -1 c) 4.8 dm3 of NH3 (g) and 4.8 dm3 of HCl (g)