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PERIODIC TEST – 1, JUNE 2021

CHEMISTRY

Grade: 12 Max. Marks: 50

Date: 20.06.2021 Time: 2 Hrs

Name of Student: ___________________ Section: ______

General Instructions:
1. This question paper has 7 pages.
2. All questions are compulsory.
3. Section A: Question numbers 1 to 14 are very short answer questions and carry one mark
each.
4. Section B: Questions 15 to 18 are short answer questions of two marks each.
5. Section C: Question numbers 19 to 22 are long answer questions of three marks each.
6. Section D: Questions 23 and 24 are also long answer questions of five marks each.
7. There is no overall choice. However an internal choice has been provided in one question
of two marks, one question of three marks and both the questions of five marks weightage.
You have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
8. Use log tables if necessary. The use of calculators is not allowed.
9. The reading time is 15 minutes.

SECTION A
1) Read the given passage and answer the questions given below: (1x 4 = 4)

Boiling point or freezing point of liquid solution would be affected by the dissolved solids in
the liquid phase. A soluble solid in solution has the effect of raising its boiling point and
depressing its freezing point. The addition of non-volatile substances to a solvent decreases
the vapour pressure and the added solute particles affect the formation of pure solvent
crystals. According to many researches the decrease in freezing point is directly correlated to
the concentration of solutes dissolved in the solvent. This phenomenon is expressed as
freezing point depression and it is useful for several applications such as freeze concentration
of liquid food and to find the molar mass of an unknown solute in the solution.
Freeze concentration is a high quality liquid food concentration method where water is
removed by forming ice crystals. This is done by cooling the liquid food below the freezing
point of the solution. The freezing point depression is referred as a colligative property and it
is proportional to the molal concentration of the solution (m), along with vapour pressure
lowering, boiling point elevation, and osmotic pressure. These are physical characteristics of
solutions that depend only on the identity of the solvent and the concentration of the solute.
The characters are not depending on the solute’s identity.

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(i) When a non-volatile solid is added to pure water it will:

(a) boil above 100oC and freeze above 0oC

(b) boil below 100o C and freeze above 0oC
(c) boil above 100o C and freeze below 0oC
(d) boil below 100o C and freeze below 0oC

(ii) Colligative properties are:

(a) Independent of the concentration of the solute and dependent on the solvent’s
and solute’s identity.
(b) Dependent only on the identity of the solute and the concentration of the solute
and independent of the solvent’s identity.
(c) Dependent on the identity of the solvent and solute and thus on the concentration
of the solute.
(d) Dependent only on the identity of the solvent and the concentration of the solute
and independent of the solute’s identity.

(iii) Assume three samples of juices A, B and C having glucose as the only sugar present in
them. The concentration of sample A, B and C are 0.1 m, 0.5 m and 0.2 m respectively.
Depression in freezing point will be the highest for the fruit juice:
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) All have the same freezing point

(iv) Identify which of the following is a colligative property :

(a) freezing point (b) boiling point
(c) osmotic pressure (d) all of the above

2) Read the given passage and answer the questions given below: (1 x 4 = 4)
We are mostly surrounded by solids and we use them more often than liquids and
gases. For different applications we need solids with widely different properties.
These properties depend upon the nature of constituent particles and the binding
forces operating between them. Therefore, study of the structure of solids is
important. The correlation between structure and properties helps in discovering
new solid materials with desired properties like high temperature superconductors,
magnetic materials, and biodegradable polymers for packaging, and bio compliant
solids for surgical implants, etc.
From our earlier studies, we know that liquids and gases are called fluids because of
their ability to flow. The fluidity in both of these states is due to the fact that the
molecules are free to move about. On the contrary, the constituent particles in
solids have fixed positions and can only oscillate about their mean positions. This
explains the rigidity in solids. In crystalline solids, the constituent particles are
arranged in regular patterns.

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 Intermolecular forces tend to keep the molecules (or atoms or ions) closer, whereas
thermal energy tends to keep them apart by making them move faster. At
sufficiently low temperature, the thermal energy is low and intermolecular forces
bring them so close that they cling to one another and occupy fixed positions. These
can still oscillate about their mean positions and the substance exists in solid state.

In the following questions a statement of assertion followed by a statement of

reason is given. Choose the correct answer out of the following choices:

(A) Both assertion and reason are correct statements, and reason is the correct
explanation of the assertion.
(B) Both assertion and reason are correct statements, but reason is not the correct
explanation of the assertion.
(C) Assertion is correct, but reason is wrong statement.
(D) Assertion is wrong, but reason is correct statement.

(i) Assertion: Crystalline solids have short range order.

Reason: Amorphous solids are isotropic.

(ii) Assertion: In close packing of spheres, a tetrahedral void is surrounded by four spheres
whereas an octahedral void is surrounded by six spheres.
Reason: A tetrahedral void has a tetrahedral shape whereas an octahedral void has an
octahedral shape.

(iii) Assertion: In any ionic solid (MX) with Schottky defects, the number of positive and
negative ions are the same.
Reason: Equal number of cation and anion vacancies are present.

(iv) Assertion: Anion vacancies in alkali halides are produced by heating the alkali halide
crystals with alkali metal vapour.
Reason: Electrons trapped in anion vacancies are referred to as F-centres.

Questions 3 to 8 are multiple choice questions type. (1 mark each)

3) Value of Henry’s constant KH
a) Increases with increase in temperature b) Increases with decrease in temperature
c) Remains constant d) First increases, then decreases

4) Which of the following option will be the limiting molar conductivity of CH3COOH if the
limiting molar conductivity of CH3COONa is 91 S cm2 mol-1?
Limiting molar conductivity for individual ions are given in the following table.

S. No. Ions Limiting molar conductivity / S cm2 mol-1

1 H+ 349.6
2 Na+ 50.1
3 K+ 73.5
4 OH- 199.1

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 a) 350 S cm2 mol-1 b) 375.3 S cm2 mol-1
c) 390.5 S cm2 mol-1 d) 340.4 S cm2 mol-1

5) When 1 mole of benzene is mixed with 1 mole of toluene, the vapour will contain
………….
(Given: vapour of benzene = 12.8 k Pa and vapour pressure of toluene = 3.85 k Pa).
a) equal amount of benzene and toluene as it forms an ideal solution
b) unequal amount of benzene and toluene as it forms a non-ideal solution
c) higher percentage of benzene
d) higher percentage of toluene

6) Edge length of unit cell of chromium metal is 287 pm with bcc arrangement. The atomic
radius is of the order:
(a) 287 pm (b) 574 pm (c) 124.27 pm (d) 143.5 pm

7) The cell reaction of the galvanic cell,

8) For the redox reaction:

Zn + Cu2+(0.1 M) → Zn2+(1M) + Cu taking place in a cell with Eocell = 1.10 V.
Ecell for the galvanic cell will be
(a) 2.14 V (b) 1.80 V (c) 1.07 V (d) 0.82 V

In the following questions (Q. No. 9 - 14) a statement of assertion followed by a statement
of reason is given. Choose the correct answer out of the following choices. ( 1 mark each)
(A) Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason is correct explanation for
assertion.
(B) Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason is not correct explanation
for assertion.
(C) Assertion is correct statement but reason is wrong statement.
(D) Assertion is wrong statement but reason is correct statement.

9) Assertion: Glass panes fixed to windows of old buildings are found to be slightly thicker
at the bottom.
Reason: Amorphous solids have a tendency to flow.

10) Assertion: Nitric acid and water form maximum boiling azeotrope.
Reason: Azeotropes are binary mixtures having the same composition in liquid and
vapour phase.

11) Assertion: CsCl has body centered cubic arrangement.

Reason: CsCl has one Cs+ ion and one Cl– ions in its unit cell.
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12) Assertion: When a solution is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable
membrane, the solvent molecules pass through it from pure solvent side to the solution
side.
Reason: Diffusion of solvent occurs from a region of high concentration solution to a
region of low concentration solution.

13) Assertion: The resistivity for a substance is its resistance when it is one meter long and its
area of cross section is one square meter.
Reason: The SI units of resistivity is ohm metre.

14) Assertion: The presence of a large number of Schottky defects in NaCl lowers its density.
Reason: In NaCl, there are approximately 106 Schottky pairs per cm3 at room
temperature.

SECTION B
15) State Henry’s law. Mention any two of its application. 2

16) (a) A compound is formed by two elements X and Y. The element Y forms ccp and 2
atoms of X occupy 1/3rd of tetrahedral voids. What is the formula of the
compound?

(b) Diamond and graphite are both giant covalent solids. Diamond is an insulator while
graphite is a conductor. Explain.
OR
(a) Identify the crystal defect in figure below.

(b) How does it affect the density of the crystal?

17) Define osmotic pressure. Why is it a preferred colligative property to determine the 2
molecular mass of polymers?

18) The cell in which the following reaction occurs; 2

2Fe3+ + 2I- 2Fe2+ + l2(s) has E0cell = 0.236 V at 298 K.
Calculate the standard Gibbs energy and the equilibrium constant of the cell reaction.
[antilog 7.986 = 9.68 ; antilog 0.236 = 1.721]
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 SECTION C

19) An element A crystallizes in fcc structure. 200 g of this element has 4.12 x 10 24 atoms. 3
The density of A is 7.2 g cm-3. Calculate the edge length of the unit cell.

OR

An element with molar mass 27 g mol-1 forms a cubic unit cell with edge length
4.05 x 10-8 cm. If its density is 2.7 g cm-3, what is the nature of the cubic unit cell?

20) Define molar conductivity of a substance and describe how it varies for weak and strong 3
electrolytes with changes in concentration of solute. How is such change explained?

21) (a) Can Fe3+ oxidize Br- to Br2 under standard conditions? Justify your answer.
(E0Fe3+/Fe2+ = 0.77 V; E0Br2/Br- = 1.08 V)
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(b) State Kohlrausch law of independent migration of ions.

22) a) State Raoult’s law and write its mathematical expression.

b) What is meant by positive and negative deviations from Raoult’s law and how is the 3
sign of ΔH related to positive and negative deviations from Raoult’s law?

SECTION D

23) (і) Define the term Limiting molar conductivity.

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(іі) The molar conductance of acetic acid at infinite dilution is 390.7 S cm2 mol-1.
Calculate the molar conductance of 0.1 M acetic acid solution, given that the
dissociation constant of acetic acid is 1.8 x 10-5.

(ііі) A 0.01 M solution of MgCl2 is diluted by adding water. What will happen to its
conductivity and molar conductivity?
OR
(a) E0cell for the given redox reaction is 2.71 V.
Mg2+ + Cu2+ (0.01 M) → Mg2+ (0.001 M) + Cu(s).
Calculate Ecell for the reaction.

(b) Write the direction of flow of current when an external opposite potential applied
is:
(i) less than 2.71 V and
(ii) greater than 2.71 V

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24) (a) At 300K, 36 g of glucose, C6H12O6 present per litre in its solution has an osmotic 5
pressure of 4.98 bar. If the osmotic pressure of another glucose solution is 1.52 bar
at the same temperature, calculate the concentration of the other solution.

(b) Give reasons:

(i) An increase in temperature is observed on mixing chloroform and acetone.
(ii) Aquatic animals are more comfortable in cold water than in warm water.
OR
(a) A 4% solution (w/w) of sucrose (M = 342 g mol-1) in water has a freezing point of
271.15 K. Calculate the freezing point of 5% glucose (M = 180 g mol -1) in water.
[Given: freezing point of pure water = 273.15 K)

(b) Calculate the osmotic pressure of 0.25 M solution of urea at 370C.

[R = 0.083 L bar/mol/K]

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