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PREMIER EDUCATION SOCIETY’S

TRINITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
MOCK TEST - I

Prepared on the basis of Model paper of:

Cambridge IGCSE
Cambridge Assessment International Education

CHEMISTRY
Paper 4 Theory (Extended)
0620/04

30th September 2020

1 hour 15 minutes

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1. This question is about ethanoic acid, CH3COOH.
(a) Ethanoic acid is manufactured from methanol and carbon monoxide.

The process is done at 200 °C and 30 atmospheres pressure.

The forward reaction is exothermic.
Complete the table using only the words increases, decreases or no change.

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(b) How would you show that an aqueous solution of ethanoic acid is an acid
without using an indicator or measuring the pH?

State the reagent you would use and give the expected observations. Write a
chemical equation for the reaction that you describe.

●reagent

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● expected observations

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● chemical equation

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(c) Ethanoic acid is a weak acid.
(i) What is meant by the term acid ?

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(ii) Why is ethanoic acid described as weak ?

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(d) Ethanoic acid reacts with methanol to form an ester.
(i) State two conditions required for this reaction.

1.___________________________________________________________

2.__________________________________________________________ [2]
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(ii) Draw the structure of the ester formed when ethanoic acid reacts with
methanol. Show all of the atoms and all of the bonds. Name the ester.
Structure

name______________________________________________________ [3]
(iii) Name an ester which is a structural isomer of the ester in (d)(ii).

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[Total: 15]
2. The structural formula of cyclohexane is drawn below.

(a) The name gives information about the structure of the compound.
Hex because there are six carbon atoms and cyclo because they are joined
in a ring.
What information about the structure of this compound is given by the ending
ane?

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(b) What are the molecular and empirical formulae of cyclohexane?

molecular formula ________________________________

empirical formula ________________________________ [2]

(c) Draw the structural formula of cyclobutane.

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(d) (i) Deduce the molecular formula of hexene.

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(ii) Explain why cyclohexane and the alkene, hexene, are isomers.

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(e) Describe a test which would distinguish between cyclohexane and the
unsaturated hydrocarbon hexene.

test_____________________________________________________

result of test with cyclohexane_____________________________________

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result of test with hexene ________________________________________

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[Total: 11]
3. Zinc blende is the common ore of zinc. It is usually found mixed with an ore
of lead and traces of silver.
(a) (i) Describe how zinc blende is changed into zinc oxide.

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(ii) Write an equation for the reduction of zinc oxide by carbon.

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(iii) The boiling point of lead is 1740 °C and that of zinc is 907 °C. Explain
why, when both oxides are reduced by heating with carbon at 1400 °C, only
lead remains in the furnace.

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(b) A major use of zinc is to make diecasting alloys. These contain about 4% of
aluminium and they are stronger and less malleable than pure zinc.
(i) Give one other large scale use of zinc.

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(ii) Describe the structure of a typical metal, such as zinc, and explain why it
is malleable.

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(iii) Suggest why the introduction of a different metallic atom into the
structure makes the alloy stronger than the pure metal.

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(c) A solution of an impure zinc ore contained zinc, lead and silver(I) ions. The
addition of zinc dust will displace both lead and silver.
(i) The ionic equation for the displacement of lead is as follows

Which change is reduction? Explain your answer.

____________________________________________________________

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(ii) Write an ionic equation for the reaction between zinc atoms and silver(I)
ions.

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[Total: 16]
4. The following method is used to make crystals of hydrated nickel sulphate.
(a)
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An excess of nickel carbonate, 12.0 g, was added to 40 cm

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of sulphuric acid, 2.0 mol/dm . The unreacted nickel carbonate was filtered
off and the filtrate evaporated to obtain the crystals.

Mass of one mole of NiSO4.7H2O = 281 g

Mass of one mole of NiCO3 = 119 g
(i) Calculate the mass of unreacted nickel carbonate.
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Number of moles of H2SO4 in 40 cm of 2.0 mol/dm acid = 0.08

Number of moles of NiCO3 reacted =________________________________

Mass of nickel carbonate reacted = ________________________________g

Mass of unreacted nickel carbonate = ______________________________g [3]

(ii) The experiment produced 10.4 g of hydrated nickel sulphate. Calculate
the percentage yield.
The maximum number of moles of NiSO4 .7H2O that could be formed =

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The maximum mass of NiSO4 .7H2O that could be formed = _____________g

The percentage yield = ________________________________________% [3]

(b) In the above method, a soluble salt was prepared by neutralising an acid with
an insoluble base. Other salts have to be made by different methods.
(i) Give a brief description of how the soluble salt, rubidium sulphate could be
made from the soluble base, rubidium hydroxide.

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(ii) Suggest a method of making the insoluble salt, calcium fluoride.

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[Total: 12]
5. In 1909, Haber discovered that nitrogen and hydrogen would react to form
ammonia. The yield of ammonia was 8%.

catalyst platinum
o
temperature 600 C
pressure 200 atm
(i) Complete the following table that describes the bond breaking and
forming in the reaction between nitrogen and hydrogen to form ammonia.

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(ii) Explain, using the above data, why the forward reaction is exothermic.

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[Total: 5]
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6. Three of the halogens in Group VII are listed below.

chlorine
bromine
iodine
(a) (i) How does their colour change down the Group?

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(ii) How do their melting points and boiling points change down the Group?

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(iii) Predict the colour and physical state (solid, liquid or gas) of astatine, At.

colour_____________________________________________________

physical state _________________________________________________ [2]

(b) A radioactive isotope of iodine, is used to treat cancer.
(i) Defi ne the term isotope.

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(ii) H ow many protons, electrons and neutrons are there in one atom of

number of protons__________________________

number of electrons _______________________

number of neutrons__________________________ [2]

(iii) W hen this isotope emits radiation, a different element with a
proton number of 54 is formed.
What is the name of this element?

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(c) Fluorine, the most reactive halogen, forms compounds with the other
halogens. It forms two compounds with bromine.
Deduce their formulae from the following information.
compound 1
The mass of one mole of this compound is 137 g.

Its formula is _________________________________ [1]

compound 2
0.02 moles of this compound contain 0.02 moles of bromine atoms and 0.1
moles of fl uorine atoms.
Its formula is ________________________________ [1]
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7. This question is about phosphorus and compounds of phosphorus
(a) A phosphorus molecule contains four phosphorus atoms only.
What is the formula of a phosphorus molecule?

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(b) Phosphorus reacts with chlorine gas to produce phosphorus(III) chloride,

PCl3.
(i) Write a chemical equation for the reaction between phosphorus and
chlorine to produce phosphorus(III) chloride, PCl 3.

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(ii) Complete the dot-and-cross diagram to show the electron arrangement
in a molecule of phosphorus(III) chloride, PCl 3. Show outer shell electrons
only.

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[Total: 5
8. Addition polymerisation and condensation polymerisation are two types of
polymerisation.
(a) Which functional group is present in all the monomers which are used to
make addition polymers?

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(b) Part of an addition polymer is shown

(i) Draw the structure of the monomer that is used to make this addition
polymer. Show all of the atoms and all of the bonds.
Name the monomer.

name______________________________________________________ [2]
(ii) State the empirical formula of:

the monomer __________________________________________________

the polymer __________________________________________________ [2]

[Total: 5]
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