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Centre Number Candidate number

Candidate name…………………………………..

MOPANI COPPER MINES NKANA SCHOOL

School Based Assessment for School Certificate Ordinary level.
Grade 12 Copper.

Science (Chemistry) 5124/3

Paper 3 practical assessment task 6

Friday 11 March 2021

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MCMNSCH
MCMNSCH /SCIENCE(PHYSICS)/5124/3/2021
/SCIENCE/5124/3/2021 This question paper consists of 4 printed pages
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Milk of magnesia is a suspension of insoluble magnesium hydroxide in water. It is taken by people

who have stomach pain caused by indigestion and works by neutralizing acid in the stomach.

P is a solution of hydrochloric acid that was prepared by reacting with milk of magnesia.

Q is 0.10 mol/dm3 sodium hydroxide, NaOH.

In this experiment you will determine the concentration of hydrochloric acid in milk of magnesia
by titrating aqueous sodium hydroxide of concentration 0.08 mol/dm3 with the acid.

(a) (i) Using a pipette and a pipette filler, pipette out 25.0 cm3 of aqueous sodium hydroxide
and transfer it into a clean conical flask.
(ii) Fill up the burette with solution P. Carry out titration of aqueous sodium hydroxide,
as accurately as possible with Q.
Record your results in the table below, repeating the titration as many times as you
consider necessary to achieve consistent results.
Rewrite the procedure you carried out using the correct tense.
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Results
Burette readings
Titration number 1 2
Final reading/cm3
Initial reading/ cm3
Volume of P used/ cm3
Best titration results( )

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Summary
Tick the best titration results.
(iii) Using the best titration results, find the average volume of P required.

Average volume of P required was……………….......cm3. [1]

(b) Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in the volume of Q used.

Moles of sodium hydroxide in the volume of Q used is…………….mol

[1]

(c) (i) Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction between hydrochloric acid, present
in a solution of P, and sodium hydroxide solution.

[1]
(ii) State the number of moles of the hydrochloric acid used in this titration.

Moles of hydrochloric acid =…………………. [1]

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(d) Calculate the concentration, in mol/dm3, of hydrochloric acid in the solution P.

Concentration, in mol/dm3, of hydrochloric acid in the solution P = ………………… mol/dm3 [2]

(e) State two precautions which you took in this experiment to make sure your results were
as accurate as possible.
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(f) Other than determining the concentration of a titrant, state one other use titration in
everyday life.
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Conclusion

…………………... dm3 of ………………..….mol/dm3 of hydrochloric acid was required to react

with…………….dm3 of …………………mol/dm3 of sodium hydroxide in solution Q. [2]

[Total: 20 marks]