HYDROGEN TEST

Marks- 45
1. Complete and balance the equations: (6)
a) Sodium + Cold water
b) Aluminium + steam
c) Iron + steam
d) Magnesium + dil. HCl
e) Zinc + dil. HCl
f) Aluminium + dil. H2SO4
g) Lead + NaOH.
h) Zinc + dil. HCl
i) H2 + Cl2
j) H2 + S
k) Iron[III] oxide + H2
l) Al + KOH + H2O
2. State balanced equation for preparation of Hydrogen by Bosch process (3)
i) Production of water
ii) Reduction of steam to hydrogen by carbon monoxide
iii) Removal of unreacted carbon di oxide and carbon monoxide
3. How can you obtain hydrogen from Sodium hydroxide[ not by electrolysis] (2)
4. When steam is passed over red hot iron, magnetic oxide of iron and hydrogen are
obtained. “ the reaction between steam and red hot iron is a Reversible reaction.”
What is meant by this statement. (2)
5. Give Reason for the following: (8)
a) Two jars of H2 are collected, one burns quietly and other does not.
b) Though hydrogen is lighter than air, it is not collected by the downward
displacement of air.
c) Though lead is above hydrogen in the activity series, it does not react with dil.
HCl or dil. H2SO4 in the laboratory preparation of hydrogen.
d) Magnesium reacts with very dil. Nitric acid at low temperatures liberating
hydrogen.
e) A mixture of Hydrogen and chlorine can be separated by passage through a
porous pot.
6. Describe the chemical test applied to the following gases which would enable you to
distinguish between them: carbon monoxide and hydrogen. (1)
7. Explain briefly how hydrogen is manufactured on a large scale. (3)
8. What do you observe when a piece of sodium is dropped into cold water. (1)
9. Give the general group characteristics applied to hydrogen with respect to similarity
in properties of hydrogen with-
a) Alkali metals of group 1[IA]
b) Halogens of group 17[VIIA]
With special reference to valency electrons and ion formation. (2)
10. How did the name Hydrogen originate? How does hydrogen occur in the combined
state. (2)
11. In the laboratory preparation of hydrogen from zinc and dilute acid. Give reason for
the following: (4)
a) The complete apparatus is air- tight.
b) Dil. Nitric acid is not preferred as the reactant acid.
c) The lower of the thistle funnel should dip below the level of the acid in the flask.
d) Hydrogen is not collected over air.
12. State the use of hydrogen- (3)
a) As a fuel
b) In hydrogenation of oil and coal
c) In extraction of metals
13. The diagram represents the preparation and collection of hydrogen by a standard
laboratory method. (5)

a) State what is added through the thistle funnel Y

b) State what difference will be seen if pure zinc is added in the distillation flask X
instead of granulated zinc
c) Name a solution which absorbs the impurity H2S
d) State why hydrogen is collected after all the air in the apparatus is allowed to
escape.
e) Name a gas other than hydrogen collected by the same method.
14. State what are oxidizing and reducing agents. Give examples of both in gaseous,
liquid and solid form. Give two tests each generally answered by oxidising and
reducing agents respectively. (3)