11.

2 Making salts – acids

Making salts
and carbonates Worksheet 11.2.2
Lesson 2

Making copper sulfate

This question is about the experiment on worksheet 11.2.1.
1 When you make a salt, it is good to make as much of it as possible. For each
stage of the practical in the table, write down how to make as much copper
sulfate as possible.

Stage of practical How to make as much copper sulfate as

possible or How to lose as little copper
sulfate as possible
Adding copper carbonate to
sulfuric acid
Filtering the mixture of
copper carbonate powder and
copper sulfate solution
Boiling copper sulfate
solution so that its water
evaporates

2 Complete the word equation for the reaction of copper carbonate with
sulfuric acid.
copper carbonate + ___________ →___________ + carbon dioxide + water
3 When you added copper carbonate to sulfuric acid, what happened to the
carbon dioxide gas that was made in the reaction?

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4 In industry, copper sulfate is made by reacting copper metal with
concentrated sulfuric acid. Suggest why you did not use this method.

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Making other salts
5 Name the salts made by reacting the pairs of acids and carbonates below.

a Copper carbonate and hydrochloric acid.___________________________

b Zinc carbonate and sulfuric acid.__________________________________

c Magnesium carbonate and hydrochloric acid.________________________

6 Complete the word equations below.

a copper carbonate + hydrochloric acid →

____________ + carbon dioxide + water

b zinc carbonate + ____________ →

zinc sulfate + ____________ + ____________

c magnesium carbonate + ____________ →

magnesium chloride + ____________ + ____________

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