Unit 11 Making and Identifying Salts: Summary Questions
Unit 11 Making and Identifying Salts: Summary Questions
Unit 11 Making and Identifying Salts: Summary Questions
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E s s e n t i a l C h e m i s t r y f o r C a m b r i d g e I G C S E ® 2 nd E d i t i o n
(e) Insoluble
(f) Soluble
(g) Soluble
(h) Insoluble
7 (a) Method (ii) – precipitation
(b) Method (i) – titration
(c) Method (ii) – precipitation
(d) Method (iii) – adding an insoluble metal or metal compound to an acid
PRACTICE QUESTIONS:
1 B Iron(III) ions
2 D Titration
3 B Lithium
4 (a) Evaporate off some of the water / leave in warm place to crystallise. Filter off crystals / pick
out crystals; wash crystals with minimum amount of water; dry crystals on filter paper /
leave to dry / allow to warm in oven below 100 °C.
(b) To make sure that all the acid had reacted.
(c) (i) (Acidify with nitric acid) add (aqueous) barium chloride / nitrate
(ii) White precipitate
5 (a) Turns its red
(b) Bubble through limewater; limewater turns cloudy / white precipitate.
(c) Add aqueous sodium hydroxide; white precipitate; insoluble in excess sodium hydroxide.
(d) Calcium carbonate; carbonates give off carbon dioxide with acids; M is an acid because it
turns blue litmus red.
6 (a) Hydrochloric acid
(b) Burette (with acid); flask (with alkali) under the burette; indicator in flask.
(c) Drip acid into flask (containing known volume of alkali) until indicator in flask changes
colour; record initial and final volume of acid added / record volume of acid delivered.
(d) Repeat titration without indicator, adding the same amount of acid as before; put solution
from flask in evaporating basin and evaporate of some of the water / leave in warm place
to crystallise; filter off crystals / pick out crystals.
(e) Make a solution of the crystals / dissolve crystals in dilute nitric acid; add aqueous silver
nitrate; white precipitate indicates presence of Cl− ions.
7 (a) Lead nitrate / any soluble lead salt; potassium iodide / any soluble iodide.
(b) Pb2+(aq) + 2I−(aq) → PbI2(s)
(c) Add the solutions containing lead ions and iodide ions; filter the precipitate; wash
precipitate with water; dry the precipitate below 100 °C in an oven / allow the water to
evaporate.
(d) Partly solubilise precipitate in nitric acid; add aqueous silver nitrate; light yellow precipitate
indicates presence of I− ions. ALLOW: references to making saturated lead iodide solution
(since silver iodide is much less soluble than lead iodide).
(e) (i) Ba2+(aq) + SO42−(aq) → BaSO4(s)
(ii) Add aqueous sodium hydroxide and aluminium / Devarda’s alloy; heat gently and test
gas with (damp) red litmus paper; litmus paper turns blue.
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8 (a) (i) Iron(II) salts give grey–green / green precipitate; iron(III) salts give a red–brown
precipitate.
(ii) Ammonia is an alkali; forms hydroxide ions in water.
(b) (i) Iron(II) ions have been oxidised by oxygen in the air / reacted with the oxygen in the air
to iron(III) ions.
(ii) Fe2+ → Fe3+ + e−
(c) Add silver nitrate to each of the solutions; iron(II) chloride will give a white precipitate;
iron(II) sulfate will give no precipitate OR add acidified barium chloride to the solutions;
iron(II) chloride will not change; iron(II) sulfate will produce a white precipitate.
(d) (i) React excess iron with sulfuric acid; filter off the iron; put the filtrate in an evaporating
basin; evaporate some of the water from the filtrate and leave to crystallise / leave
filtrate in warm place to crystallise.
(ii) Fe(s) + H2SO4(aq) → FeSO4(aq) + H2(g)
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