CHEM181: FINAL EXAMINATION REVIEWER

LAB EQUIPMENT

COMMON LAB OPERATIONS & CALORIMETRY
1. If two objects have different temperatures,
heat will flow from the warmer object to
the cooler one unit.
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2. A metal cube at temperature of 10oC
immersed in a liquid at temperature of 70
o
C, What is the temperature of the metal
cube when thermal equilibrium is achieved
between the cube and the liquid.
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3. For testing acidity, a red litmus paper is
used. TRUE OR FALSE
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4. Volume of liquids is ordinarily measured
using except for:
a. Buret
b. Evaporating Dish
c. Graduated Cylinder
d. Pipet
e. Volumetric Flask
5. The act of pouring a mixture onto the
membrane that allows a passage of liquid
and results in the collection of solid.
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6. Uses glass funnel with a stem and filter
paper folded using basic technique or
fluted type.
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7. The sedimentation of particles under the
influence of the centrifugal force and it is
used for separation of superfine
suspensions.
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8. A sample of iron receives 50.0 J of heat
energy that raises the temperature of the
iron by 25.0 oC. If iron has a specific heat
of 0.10 J/g oC, what is the mass of the iron
sample?
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9. If you were to hold an endothermic
reaction in your hand, your hand would get
colder because the reaction is gaining
heat energy from your hand. TRUE OR
FALSE.
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10. Water molecules have the greatest kinetic
energy in
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11. A reaction is performed in a beaker with a
temperature probe recording the
temperature changes of the reaction. If the
temperature began at 15.0 oC and ended
at 27.5 oC. Is the reaction endothermic or
exothermic?
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12. It is the usual method for group
separations.
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13. Regulates the amount of air coming in and
to close and open the airholes.
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14. All equipment must be cleaned and dried
after the exercise because traces of
impurities may interfere with the many
qualitative tests. TRUE OR FALSE
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15. What is the specific heat of an unknown
substance if 100.0 g of it at 200.0 oC
reaches an equilibrium temperature of
27.1 oC when it comes in contact with a
calorimeter of water? The water weighs
75g and had an initial temperature of 20.0
o
C (Specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g oC)
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16. The most satisfactory method of heating
solution in a test tube is in a water bath.
TRUE OR FALSE
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17. Luminous, blue flame is used when
heating in the laboratory. TRUE OR
FALSE.
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18. A process in which the components of the
mixtures are separated by pouring out
liquids so as not to disturb the solids that
readily settle at the bottom of the
container.
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19. Smell the solution by wafting. TRUE OR
FALSE.
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20. In an exothermic process, the
surroundings are gaining energy. TRUE
OR FALSE.
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21. Humans obtain all of their energy
requirements from the food they eat. The
amount of energy in food can be
measured using a bomb calorimeter. The
following are steps, in random order, that
are taken to determine experimentally the
energy content of a sample of a food,
using a bomb calorimeter.
1. Measure the rise in temperature.
2. Fill the calorimeter with water and wait
until the temperature has reached a
steady value.
3. Accurately weigh the sample of the food
and place it inside the sealed
compartment or 'bomb' in the presence of
excess oxygen.
4. Measure the rise in temperature again.
5. Pass a measured amount of electrical
energy into the system.
6. Ignite the sample with electrical ignition
wires.
Which one of the following alternatives
best presents an appropriate sequence of
procedures?
A. 3,6,1,2,5,4
B. 3,2,5,1,6,4
C. 5,1,3,2,4,6
D. 2,3,1,5,6,4
22. The total energy of all the particles in a
substance is called:
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23. For testing basicity, a blue litmus paper is
used. TRUE OR FALSE.
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24. Used to reduce the volume of the solution
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25. A piece of metal with a mass of 32.8g is
heated to 100.5 oC and dropped into
138.2g of water at 20.0 oC. The final
temperature of the system is 30.2 oC.
What is the specific heat capacity of the
metal.
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26. If the specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g oC,
how much heat is required to increase the
temperature of 1.2 kg of water from 23 oC
to 39 oC.
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27. Part of Bunsen burner where fuel and air
mix.
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28. The units of specific heat are:
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29. The flame when airhole is closed is blue
and luminous
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30. The SI unit of heat and energy is
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HEAT OF COMBUSTION & REDOX
1. Define kinetic energy.
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2. Which of the following (with specific heat
capacity provided) would show the
smallest temperature change upon gaining
200.0 J of heat?
a. 25.0 g Au, c= 0.128 J/g oC
b. 50.0 g Al, c= 0.903 J/g oC
c. 50.0 g Cu, c= 0.386 J/g oC
d. 25.0 g granite, c= 0.79 J/g oC
3. The law of _________________________
states that energy can be neither created
nor destroyed.
4. Which of the following statements about
energy is false?
a. Kinetic energy is the energy
associated with its position or
composition.
b. The total energy of a system remains
constant.
c. Energy can be converted from one
type to another.
d. Energy is the capacity to do work.
e. Systems tend to change in order to
lower their potential energy.
5. Define thermal energy.
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6. A 35.6 g sample of ethanol (C2H5OH) is
burned in a bomb calorimeter, according
to the following reaction. If the
temperature rose from 35.0 to 76.0 oC and
the heat capacity of the calorimeter is 23.3
kJ/ oC, what is the value of DH orxn? The
molar mass of ethanol is 46.07 g/mol.
C2H5OH(l) + 3 O2(g) → 2 CO2(g) + 3
H2O(g) ΔH°rxn =?
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7. What element is being oxidized in the
following redox reaction?
H2O2 (l) + ClO2 (aq) → ClO2- (aq) + O2
(g)
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8. What element is being oxidized in the
following redox reaction:
Cr(OH)4- (aq) + ClO- (aq) → CrO4-2 (aq)
+ Cl- (aq)
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9. What element is being oxidized in the
following redox reaction:
MnOH4- (aq) + H2C2O4 (aq) → Mn2+
(aq) + CO2 (g)
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10. Balance the following redox reaction if
it occurs in H2SO4. What are the
coefficients in front of C3H8O2 and
H2SO4 in the balanced reaction?
C3H8O2(aq) + K3Cr8O7(aq) → C3H4O4(aq) +
Cr2(SO4)3(aq)
THERMO & NUCLEAR CHEM
1. Can you tell which one of the four
examples correspond to the making of a
hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 and water?
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2. If the strong nuclear force affects all
particles that are very close to each other,
what will happen if we add two neutrons to
our nucleus with two protons?
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3. Which of the following best describes the
burning of fuel?
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4. All of the following statements are true
EXCEPT:
a. Heat flows from the system into the
surroundings in an exothermic
process.
b. In an endothermic process heat flows
from the surroundings into the system.
c. The value of q is negative in an
endothermic process.
d. The value of q is positive when heat
flows into a system from the
surroundings.
e. Enthalpy is a state property.
5. If the nucleus emits a beta particle, its
atomic number _____________________.
6. Which of the following best describe the
rusting of iron?
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7. Which of the following best describe the
melting of ice?
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8. Do you know what entropy is?
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9. Why is there almost no loss of mass in a
nucleus undergoing gamma decay?
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10. All of the following statements concerning
radiocarbon dating are true EXCEPT:
a. Radiocarbon dating is limited to
objects less than 50,000 years old.
b. Radioactive carbon decays into a
nitrogen-14 atom and a beta particle.
c. The decay of C-14 us used for
radiocarbon dating.
d. Radiocarbon dating is used to
determine the age of the meteorites.
e. Radioactive carbon is produced by the
reaction of cosmic radiation and
nitrogen-14.
11. The energy change for a nuclear reaction
can be calculated from what equation?
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12. If a nucleus captures an electron, its
atomic number _____________________.
13. Based on the experiment, which of these
statements regarding the storage
materials is false?
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14. Oxygen has an atomic number of 12.
However, the isotope O-14 has a half-life
of 70.62 s. What would happen to 1g of O-
14 after 70.62s?
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15. What happens to the atomic number
during alpha decay?
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16. In the experiment for Basic Chemistry
Thermodynamics using Bomb
Calorimeter, which part of the equation H=
U+PV, stays constant?
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17. How big is the loss of mass of the nucleus
in beta decay?
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18. Since the unit of detlaH is J, the unit of
temperature is K, and the unit of deltaS is
J/K, what is then the unit of deltaG?
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19. What happens to the equation
deltaH=detlaUVdetlaP, if the change in
pressure is very small?
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20. The combustion of octane is an
exothermic reaction. Which statement is
true for an exothermic reaction?
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21. We can infer the initial concentration of C-
14 in a fossil by using the atmospheric
concentration of C-14 at that time. How
can knowing the half-life of C-14, its initial
concentration and measuring its
concentration at the moment of the
discovery allow us to estimate the age of
the fossil.
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22. Specific heat ( c )is defined as:
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23. The first law of thermodynamics states
that:
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24. Which of the ff. best describes the process
of photosynthesis?
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25. If a nucleus emits an alpha particle, its
mass number ______________________.
26. How do you think we can determine how
much energy is stored in a chemical
compound?
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27. What will be the sign of deltaG for a
spontaneous reaction?
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28. Which of these reactions leads to an
increase in the entropy of the system?
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29. Why did the nucleus stay together when
we added two neutrons?
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30. Radioactive elements have been used:
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