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6  Using moles
Extended curriculum
1 True or false? Underline your choice.
A A mole of a substance is defined as the amount that contains the same
number of units as the number of atoms in 1 gram of hydrogen gas. true / false
B The Avogadro number is the number of atoms in 12 g of carbon-12. true / false
C 1 mole of water molecules contains 3 moles of atoms. true / false
D 1 dm3 of carbon monoxide gas (CO) contains the same number
of molecules as 1 dm3 of carbon dioxide gas (CO2). true / false
E 80 g of calcium contains more atoms than 80 g of sulfur.
(Ar: S  5  32, Ca  5  40) true / false
F The molecular formula is never the same as the empirical formula. true / false
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2 This question is about masses, moles, and the Avogadro constant.

a How many atoms are there in 71 g of chlorine?

(Ar: Cl  5  35.5)

b What is the mass of 0.2 moles of potassium hydroxide, KOH?

(Ar: H  5  1, O 516, K  5  39)

c How many moles of atoms are there in 1.4 g of lithium?

(Ar: Li  5  7)

d What is the mass of 4 moles of sulfur molecules, S8?

(Ar: S  5  32)

e How many moles of water molecules are there in 50 g

of hydrated calcium nitrate, Ca(NO3)2.2H2O?
(Mr: Ca(NO3)2.2H2O  5  200)

f How many oxygen atoms are there in 4.9 g of H2SO4?

(Mr: H2SO4  5  98)

g How many moles of oxygen molecules are there in

24 dm3 of air at r.t.p.? Assume air is 20% oxygen.

h 125 cm3 of a solution contains 0.25 moles of the solute.

What is the concentration of the solution?

i What mass of sodium hydroxide is there in 35 cm3 of

a 2 mol / dm3 solution of sodium hydroxide? (Mr: NaOH  5  40)
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3 a Calcium hydroxide decomposes when heated, as below. (Mr: Ca(OH)2  5  74, CaO  5  56.)

Ca(OH)2 (s)    CaO (s)  1  H2O (l )

What mass of calcium hydroxide will give 100 g of calcium oxide? g

b On heating iron(III) sulfate (Mr  5  400), sulfur trioxide is produced:

Fe2(SO4)3 (s)    Fe2O3 (s)  1  3SO3 (  g)

What volume of sulfur trioxide at r.t.p. will be produced,

when 25 g of iron(III) sulfate are heated? dm3
c When aluminium and fluorine are heated together, aluminium fluoride is formed:

2Al (s)  1  3F2 (g)    2AlF3 (s)

What will be present after the reaction, and how much, when 40 g of aluminium
and 57 g of fluorine react? (Ar: Al  5  27, F  5  19)

d Ethene is obtained by the dehydration of ethanol:

C2H5OH (l )    C2H4 (  g)  1  H2O (l )

What mass of ethene will be obtained from 10 g of ethanol, if the yield from the reaction is 50%?

(Mr: C2H5OH  5  46, C2H4  5  28) g

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4 Aluminium carbide contains only aluminium and carbon. It reacts with water to give
aluminium hydroxide, Al(OH)3, and methane, CH4. 0.6 moles of the carbide reacted with excess
water to give 2.4 moles of Al(OH)3 and 1.8 moles of CH4.
Complete the formula for the carbide below, and balance the equation for the reaction:

…..Al...C…  1  .….H2O    …..Al(OH)3  1  …..CH4 [4]

5 A hydrocarbon contains 92.3% of carbon and 7.7% of hydrogen. It has a molar mass of 78.
Complete this table to find the molecular formula for the hydrocarbon:

carbon hydrogen
mass of element in 100 g of compound
relative atomic masses, Ar 12 1
moles of atoms that combine
ratio in which atoms combine
empirical formula

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