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1.

Use the following redox potential data to answer the questions that follow
Electrode reaction

(a)

E /V

Fe(OH)3

+e

Fe(OH)2 + OH

0.56

Fe2+

+2e

Fe

0.44

Fe3+

+3e

Fe

0.04

H+

+e

1/2H2

0.00

1/2O2+H2O

+2e

2OH

+0.40

Fe3+

+e

Fe2+

+0.77

1/2Cl2

+e

Cl

+1.36

Co3+

+e

Co2+

+1.82

(i)

Explain why the reaction of iron metal with dilute, aqueous hydrochloric acid gives
iron (II) chloride and not iron (III) chloride.
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(ii)

(2)

Suggest how an aqueous solution of iron (III) chloride could be made from iron
metal. Justify your answer.
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(b)

(3)

Suggest, in outline, the stages in the rusting of iron, using the data above.
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(3)
(Total 8 marks)

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2.

In the production of sodium hydroxide, brine is the raw material used. It is electrolysed in a
diaphragm cell using a titanium anode and a steel cathode, separated by a porous asbestos
diaphragm.
(a)

Outline the reasons for the used of the following in the production of sodium hydroxide
by this method:
(i)

brine, rather than sea water;

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(ii)

(1)

an electrolytic process, rather than one where the metal is first produced and then
reacted with water;
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(iii)

(1)

a titanium anode, rather than a steel one;

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(2)
(Total 4 marks)

3.

(a)

When solid calcium nitrate is heated, brown fumes of nitrogen dioxide, NO2, are seen and
the solid remaining after decomposition is calcium oxide.
(i)

Write a balanced equation for the thermal decomposition of calcium nitrate.

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(ii)

(2)

Describe the changes you would see when cold water is added drop by drop to cold
calcium oxide and give the chemical equation for the reaction.
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(iii)

State whether barium nitrate will decompose more easily or less easily than calcium
nitrate on heating with a Bunsen burner.
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(iv)

(1)

Account for the trend in the thermal stability of the nitrates of the elements in group
2.
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(b)

(3)

The brown fumes in part (a) are not pure NO2 but a mixture of N2O4 and NO2.
N2O4(g)
Pale yellow

2NO2(g)
dark brown

A transparent glass syringe was filled with the gaseous mixture of N2O4 and NO2 and its
tip sealed. When the piston of the syringe was rapidly pushed well into the body of the
syringe, thereby compressing the gas mixture considerably, the colour of the gas became
momentarily darker but them became lighter again.
(i)

Suggest why compressing the gases causes the mixture to darken.

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(ii)

(1)

Explain why the mixture turns lighter on standing.

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(iii)

(2)

Write an expression for the equilibrium constant, Kp, for this equilibrium.

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(iv)

1.0 mole of N2O4 was allowed to reach equilibrium at 400K. At equilibrium the
partial pressure of N2O4 was found to be 0.15 atm.
Given that the equilibrium constant Kp for this reaction is 48 atm, calculate the
partial pressure of NO2 in the equilibrium mixture.

(3)
(Total 16 marks)

4.

(a)

A series of experiments was carried out on A, a compound of potassium, to determine its

identity.
Some solid A was dissolved in distilled water. Aqueous silver nitrate acidified with dilute
nitric acid was added and a cream precipitate was formed, which only slightly dissolved in
dilute aqueous ammonia but was soluble in concentrated aqueous ammonia.
Another sample of solid A was heated with concentrated sulphuric acid. The mixture of
fumes produced was passed into water and the solution labelled B.
The solution B was strongly acidic and coloured pale brown.
A sample of solution B was mixed with an excess of an aqueous solution of potassium
iodide when the colour turned to a very dark brown. The solution turned blue on adding
one drop of starch solution but adding an excess of sodium thiosulphate solution removed
the colour completely.
Passing chlorine into an aqueous solution of A gave a dark brown liquid.
(i)

Identify A
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(ii)

Identify the component of the fumes which was responsible for the solution B being
strongly acidic.
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(iii)

(1)

(1)

Account for the production of the pale brown colour in solution B

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(iv)

(2)

What was indicated by the starch solution turning blue?

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(v)

Write an ionic equation for the reaction which led to the disappearance of the blue
colour on adding sodium thiosulphate.
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(vi)

(2)

On the basis of these results it is possible to place three elements in order of their
ability to act as oxidising agents.
Give the names of these elements in order, with the most powerful oxidising agent
first and the least powerful last.
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(b)

(i)

Give the formula of a compound containing chlorine in the oxidation state +5

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(ii)

(1)

Write an ionic equation for the disproportionation of the chlorate(I) ion.

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(c)

(2)

(2)

Give one large scale use of chlorine.

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(1)
(Total 13 marks)

5.

The Born-Haber cycle for the formation of sodium chloride from sodium and chlorine may be
represented by a series of stages labelled A to F as shown.

Na+ (g) + Cl(g) + e

A
Na + (g) + 12 Cl 2 (g) + e
Na(g) + 12 Cl2 (g)
Na(s) +

1
2 Cl2 (g)

Na+ (g) + Cl (g)

C
E

NaCl(s)

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(a)

(i)

Write the letters A to F next to the corresponding definition in the table below
definition

letter

H/kJ mol1

1st ionisation energy of

sodium

+494

1st electron affinity of

chlorine

364

the enthalpy of atomisation

of sodium

+109

the enthalpy of atomisation

of chlorine

+121

the lattice enthalpy of

sodium chloride

770

the enthalpy of formation of

sodium chloride
(3)

(ii)

Calculate the enthalpy of formation of sodium chloride from the data given.

(2)

(b)

The lattice enthalpies can be calculated from theory as well as determined experimentally.
Experimental
H/kJ mol1

Theoretical
H/kJ mol1

Sodium chloride

770

766

Silver iodide

889

778

Why is the experimental value of the lattice enthalpy of silver iodide (889kJmol1) so
different from the value calculated theoretically?
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(c)

Explain the trend in first ionisation energies of the elements of Group 1 in the Periodic
Table.
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(3)
(Total 10 marks)