QUIZ

Chemistry for Engineers

Name: __________________________________Course and Year: ______________Date: __________
I. Multiple Choices: Choose the right answer among the options A, B, C, and D. Write the letter only as your answer at the left column blank.
_____1. Which type of fire extinguisher should be used on a fire involving flammable liquids such as grease or oil?
A. Water B. Carbon Dioxide C. Dry Chemical D. Foam
_____2. Water is not used to control fires involving electrical appliances.
A. False B. True C. Maybe D. Undefined
_____3. Wood is a better fuel than LPG.
A. False B. True C. Maybe D. Undefined
_____4. Which of the following fuel has highest calorific value?
A. Wood B. coal C. Hydrogen D. petrol
_____5. Which is not combustible substance?
A. Wood B. Cow dung cake C. stone D. paper
_____6. What is produced when combustable substance is in the vapour state and burn strongly in the presence of air?
A. heat B. light C. flame D. fumes
_____7. Are the molecules in wood the same as ash
A. yes B. depends C. does it matter D. no
_____8. The condition which are required for combustion to take place are:
A. fuel B. ignition temperature C. oxygen D. all of these
_____9. Another term for burning is
A. Fire triangle B. Magnesium oxide C. Combustion D. Bustion
_____10. Which of these isn't in the fire triangle?
A. Fuel B. Heat C. Oxygen D. Carbon dioxide
_____11. Is combustion a reversible reaction?
A. Yes. B. No. C. Maybe D. Undefined
_____12. Water is not used to control fires involving electrical appliances.
A. False B. True C. Maybe D. Undefined
_____13. A good fuel burns neither too fast nor too slowly.
A. True B. False C. Maybe D. Undefined
_____14. Which of these is NOT an essential part of fire.
A. Fuel. B. Friction. C. Heat. D. Oxygen.
_____15. Which one of the following is not a fossil fuel?
A. Wood B. Coal C. Petroleum D. Natural Gas
_____16. A compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen and that produces carbon dioxide and water when burned is called a(n)
A. binary compound B. carbonate C. ionic compound D. hydrocarbon
_____17. What part of the fire triangle do you remove by spraying water onto a fire?
A. Heat B. Oxygen C. Fuel D. Undefined
_____18. What are the types of combustion?
A. Complete & incomplete B. Incomplete & inexact C. Impossible & complete D. Computer & incompete
_____19. Complete combustion is when there is plenty of oxygen to react with.
A. True B. False C. Maybe D. Undefined
_____20. Incomplete combustion is when there is a limited amount of oxygen.
A. True B. False C. Maybe D. Undefined
_____21. What does incomplete combustion produce that complete combustion doesn't?
A. Carbon monoxide B. Water C. Both A and B D. None of these
_____22. Why do we burn a fuel?
A. I don't know. B. To release energy C. To lose energy D. To produce carbon dioxide
_____23. Nuclear power plants rely on which of the following reactions to generate energy?
A. Fusion B. Half-life C. Fission D. Fusion or fission
_____24. Where does fusion occur naturally?
A. Underwater B. All around us C. In the radioactive waste D. On the sun
_____25. What is the difference between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear power plant?
A. Bomb releases energy all at once; power plant release is slow and controlled.
B. Nothing much... pretty much the same.
C. Power plant releases more energy, faster.
D. One uses nuclear energy, one uses coal.
_____26. Nuclear power uses ____ for fuel.
A. steel B. coal C. uranium D. hydrogen
_____27. Energy is stored in the ___ of an atom.
A. proton B. neutron C. electron cloud D. nucleus
_____28. What are the two major forces involved with nuclear energy?
A. Fission and Fusion B. Alpha and Beta particles C. Gamma and Fission D. Radioactivity and Alpha Decay
_____29. What process does the Sun go through in order to produce limitless energy for billions of years?
A. Fusion B. Fission C. Alpha, Beta, Gamma D. Isotopic implosion
_____30. Nuclear energy is often cited as a partial solution to our energy emissions problems. Which of the following is NOT a reason given to
support that concept?
A. low carbon emissions during operation B. lessen the effects of climate change
C. lessen the cost of electricity D. minimizes risk to surrounding populations
II. Please write and balance the following combustion reactions that produce gaseous water and carbon dioxide:
1. The combustion of methane gas: CH4 + O2 →
2. The combustion of nonane gas: C9H20 + O2 →
3. The combustion of pentane gas: C5H12 + O2 →
4. The combustion of heptane gas: C7H16 + O2 →
5. The combustion of hexane gas: C6H14 + O2 →
6. The combustion of butane gas: C4H10 + O2 →
7. The combustion of ethane gas: C2H6 + O2 →
8. The combustion of octane gas: C8H18 + O2 →
9. The combustion of decane gas: C10H22 + O2 →
10. The combustion of solid glucose: C6H12O6 + O2 →
11. The combustion of sucrose: C12H22O11 + O2 →
12. The combustion of nonene gas: C9H18+ O2 →
13. The combustion of pentene gas: C5H10 + O2 →
14. The combustion of heptene gas: C7H14+ O2 →
15. The combustion of hexene gas: C6H12 + O2 →
16. The combustion of butene gas: C4H8 + O2 →
17. The combustion of ethene gas: C2H4 + O2 →
18. The combustion of octene gas: C8H16 + O2 →
19. The combustion of decene gas: C10H20 + O2 →
20. The combustion of propene gas: C3H6 + O2 →
III. Half life Word Problems. Show the half-life equation for each problem.
1. The half life of Cs-137 is 30.2 years. If the initial mass of the sample is 1.00kg, how much will remain after 151 years?

2. Carbon-14 has a half life of 5730 years. Consider a sample of fossilized wood that when alive would have contained 24g of C-14. It now
contains 1.5g. How old is the sample?

3. A 64g sample of Germanium-66 is left undisturbed for 12.5 hours. At the end of that period, only 2.0g remain. What is the half life of this
material?

4. With a half life of 28.8 years, how long will it take 1g of strontium-90 to decay to 125mg?

5. Co-60 has a half life of 5.3 years. If a pellet that has been in storage for 26.5 years contains 14.5g of Co-60, how much of this radioisotope
was present when the pellet was put in storage?

6. A 1.200kg block of phosphorus-32, which has a half life of 14.3 days, is stored for 100.1 days. At the end of this period, how much
phosphorus-32 remains?

Prepared by:
LEA MARIE P. RELAVO
Instructor