BOTSWANA EXAM I NATIONS COU NC I L

Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education

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CHEMISTRY 0570/03
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Paper 3 October/November 2015
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Write your Centre number, candidate number and name in the spaces provided at the top of this page.
Write in dark blue or black pen.
You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.

Answer all questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided on the question paper.
Show your working for any calculations.
You may use a calculator
The number of marks is given in brackets [] at the end of each question or part question.

A copy of the Periodic Table is printed on page 12.

For Examiner's Use

Total

This document consists of 12 printed pages.

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2 Examiner's
Use
(a) Look at elements 1 to 1B on the Periodic Table.
Answer the questions below, using only the names of elements with atomic
numbers 1 to 18.

{i) Which element most readily forms positive ions?

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(i i) Which two elements are the most abundant gases in air?

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(iii) Which non-metal element conducts electricity?

(iv) Which elemenl forms an amphoteric oxide?

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(v) Which element is used in sterilising water?

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(b) The diagrams show the arrangement of particles in three substances W, X and y.

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(i) Which diagram shows an arrangement of particles in an alloy?

Explain your answer.

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(ii) Duralumin is an alloy.

Give one use of duralumin and the property associated with this use.

use

property ......121

(iii) Name another example of an alloy.

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[Total:10]

2 Afat is a type of natural macromolecule that occurs in food.

(a) Name two other types of macromolecules that occur in foods.

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The structure of a fat molecule is shown.

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CHz
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CH -O-C*(CHz)ro-CHe
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CHz
- O* C-(CH2)16- CH3

(b) Name the type of linkage in this molecule.

(c) Draw the structures of the two molecules formed when the fat molecule is hydrolysed.

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(d) Name a synthetic polymer which has the same type of linkage as fat.

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fTotal: 6]
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Sorghum is a complex carbohydrate used as a source of glucose in the production of tradilional
beer.

(a) what type of reaction needs to happen to produce glucose from sorghum?

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(b) Glucose is converted to ethanol by fermentation as shown by the equation.

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CoHrzOo -------) .,..... CzHsOH +.....,. COz
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(i) Balance this equation.

(i i) Why is the temperature of the reaction maintained at around 4A'C?

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(iii) Name the homologous series to which ethanol belongs.

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(c) Ethanol can also be produced by fermentation in the laboratory as shown.

bubbles of gas

fermentation
mixture
containing universal indicator
glucose solution

(i) what colour change will be observed in the universal indicator solution?

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(i i) Give an explanation for the colour change in (cXi).

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(iii) Explain why it is important that the bung makes a tight seal in the flask during
fermentation.

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(iv) Suggest how pure ethanolcan be obtained from the mixture.

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6 Examiner's
Use

Limestone and other rocks contain calcite, CaCOg. To determine the amount of calcite in
limestone rock, 2.3 g of the limestone rock was reacted with excess dilute hydrochloric acid.

The equation for the reaction is as shown,

CaCO3(s) + ZHCI(aq) CaClz(aq) + COz(9) + H2O(l)

(a) Why was dilute hydrochloric acid added in excess?

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(b) The reaction produced 450 cm3 of carbon dioxide gas, measured at room temperature and
pressure (r.t.p).

Calculate the number of moles of carbon dioxide produced. (1 mole of a gas occupies
24000 cm3 at r.t.p.).

number of moles of carbon dioxide .. mol [2]

(c) Use your answer to (b) to calculate the number of moles of calcite that reacted to produce
this amount of carbon dioxide.

number of moles of calcite mol [1]

{d) Use your answer to (c) to calculate the mass of calcite contained in 2.3 g of limestone rock.

mass of calcite ........... I2l

(e) Use your answer to (d) to calculate the percentage of calcite in the lirnestone rock.

percentageof calcite ..........t21

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{0 Draw'dot' and 'cross' diagrams to show the bonding in calcium chloride, CaCl2.
Show allthe electrons.

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[Total: 11]

5 (a) Some electrical generators use diesel as a fuel.

Some carbon monoxide is formed.

(i) How is carbon monoxide formed?

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(ii) Name two other products of the combustion of diesel.

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(b) Carbon monoxide is used in the extraction of zinc from zinc oxide, ZnO.
The equation for the reaction is shown.

CO + ZnO ---------------- CO2+ 7n

(i) Which element is reduced in the reaction?

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ti i) Explain your answer to (b)(i) in terms of oxidation numbers.

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(c) Zinc oxide can be obtained by thermal decomposition of zinc carbonate.

(i) What is thermaldecomposition?

(ii) Write an equation for the thermal decomposition of zinc carbonate. lnclude state
symbols.

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(d) A fixed amount of zinc carbonate was heated. The volume of gas produced with time was
recorded in the table below.

time (s) 30 60 90 120 150 180

volume (cm3) 5 I 11 12 12 12

(i) Draw a circle below around the time interval at which the rate of reaction was slowest.

30-60s 60-90s 90-120s 120 - 150 s t1l

(ii) Explain your answer to {dXi),

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The equation for the reversible reaction of hydrogen and chlorine to make hydrogen chloride
is shown. The reaction reaches dynamic equilibrium.

Hz(g) + Clr(g) 2HCI(g) AH = -184 kJ/mol

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(a) What is meant by a dynamic equilibrium?

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(b) Explain, in terms of bond breaking and bond making why the energy change for the
forward reaction has a negative sign,

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(c) Suggest and explain the effect of increasing the pressure and adding a catalyst on
the equilibrium position.

(i) lncreasingpressure

explanation

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(ii) Adding a catalyst

explanation

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(d) Hydrogen chloride gas dissolves in water to form an acidic solution.

(i) Suggest the pH of the solution formed,

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{ii) Suggest why hydrogen chloride conducts electricity when dissolved in water but does
not conduct in its gaseous form,

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Use
(e) Hydrochloric acid reacts with magnesium oxide to make magnesium chloride

Describe how you could make crystals of magnesium chloride from magnesium oxide
powder and dilute hydrochloric acid.

[Total:14]

7 The diagram shows a simple cell. The cell contains copper connected by a voltmeter to another
metal. The metals dip into an electrolyte.

metal 1: copper metal2

electrolyte
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(a) The voltage of the cell was measured when five different metals were used as metal 2.

(i) Complete the table by predicting the voltmeter readings when copper and lead are
used as metal2. 121

metal 1 metal2 voltmeter reading/ V

copper copper

copper tron +0.78

copper lead

copper silver -0.46

copper Z]nc +1,10

(ii) Use the information in the table to place the metals in order of decreasing reactivity,
starting with the most reactive,

most reactive least reactive

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(b) The copper rod was placed directly into aqueous silver nitrate.

(i) Write a balanced ionic equation with state symbols for the reaction that takes place
when copper metal is placed in aqueous silver nitrate.

(ii) State two observations made during the reaction between copper metai and aqrleous
silver nitrate.

lTotal:Bl

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