General Chemistry 1: Chapter 4 Handout

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Stoichiometry

Tips for Stoichiometry

• Make sure the equation is balanced
• Make sure the units cancel out
• Pay attention to stoichiometric factors that tell you the number of moles in the reaction

Practice Questions
1. During its combustion, ethane C2H6, combines with oxygen O2 to give carbon dioxide
and water. A sample of ethane was burned completely and the water that formed has a
mass of 1.61 grams. How much ethane in grams, was in the sample?

2. What amount of bromine (in moles) reacts with 4.0 mol of aluminum to produce AlBr3?
2 Al(s) + 3 Br2(g) ® 2 AlBr3(s)

3.What amount of sodium (in moles) reacts with 1.5 moles of fluorine gas? The
unbalanced chemical
equation is given below.
Na(s) + F2(g) ® NaF(s)
a. 0.75 mol
b. 1.5 mol
c. 3.0 mol
d. 6.0 mol

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4. What mass of sodium will react with 1.23 g of chlorine gas to produce sodium chloride?
2 Na(s) + Cl2(g) ® 2 NaCl(s)

Limiting Reactants

Define a limiting reactant

5. How many moles of NF3 are expected to be produced from 5 moles of nitrogen and 8
moles of fluorine?

6.What is the mass of chlorine needed to react completely with 4 moles of carbon to produce
CCl4?

7. What amount of ammonia (in moles) is produced by the reaction of 4.00 mol H2 with
3.00 mol N2?
3 H2(g) + N2(g) ® 2 NH3(g)
a. 2.67 mol
b. 2.00 mol
c. 6.00 mol
d. 7.00 mol

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8. What mass of H2S is produced by the reaction of 1.55 g Na2S with 2.11 g
HCl? Na2S(s) + 2 HCl(g) ® 2 NaCl(s) + H2S(g)
a. 0.677 g
b. 0.986 g
c. 1.97 g
d. 3.66 g

Yield of the Reaction

What is the relationship between yield of the reaction and limiting reactants?

Formula for Yield of Reaction:

9. The decomposition of 3.32 g CaCO3 yields 1.24 g CaO. What is the percent yield of this
reaction?
CaCO3(s) ® CaO(s) + CO2(g)

10. The reaction of 23.1 g NH3 and 18.3 g O2 produces 4.10 g NO. What is the percent yield of
this reaction?
NH3(g) + 5 O2(g) ® 4 NO(g) + 6 H2O(g)

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Molarity

The formula of molarity:

11. An aqueous solution has 24 g of NH3 with a volume of 400 mL. What is the molarity?

12. What concentration of chloride ions in molarity is present in a 750 mL solution with
3.2×1021 molecules of magnesium chloride solution?

13. Which solution is more concentrated: 60 g of KOH in 5000 mL of water, or 40 g of Sr(OH)2 in

2500 mL of water?

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Dilution

The formula for Dilution: MI *VI = MF * VF

14. What is the final concentration made by adding 300ml of water to 100ml of 3M HCl?

pH and Titrations

15. What is the concentration of HNO3 in a solution with a pH of 1.2?

16. Calculate the pH after mixing 25 mL of 0.70 M HCl and 25 mL of 0.70 M

NaOH. a. 0.46
b. 1.75
c. 7.00
d. 2.21

17. The titration of 25.00 mL of HClO4 of an unknown concentration requires 25.20 mL of

0.1000 M KOH. What is the initial molarity of the HClO4?

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