Chemistry

Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry

Question:

Convert the following into basic units:
(i) 28.7 pm (ii) 15.15 µs (iii) 25365 mg

Answer:

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Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry

Q 1.

Match the following prefixes with their multiples:
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Q 2.

Calculate the atomic mass (average) of chlorine using the following data:
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Q 3.

How many oxygen atoms are there in 18 g of water?

Q 5.

Give an example of a molecule in which the ratio of the molecular formula is six times the empirical formula.

Q 6.

What is one a.m.u. or one ‘u’?

Q 7.

What do you mean by significant figures?

Q 8.

Calculate the amount of carbon dioxide that could be produced when
(i) 1 mole of carbon is burnt in air.
(ii) 1 mole of carbon is burnt in 16 g of dioxygen.
(iii) 2 moles of carbon are burnt in 16 g of dioxygen.

Q 9.

What do you understand by stoichiometric coefficients in a chemical equation?

Q 10.

How much copper can be obtained from 100 g of copper sulphate (CuSO4  )? (Atomic mass of Cu= 63.5 amu)

Q 11.

State Avogadro’s law.

Q 12.

Round up the following upto three significant figures:
(i) 34.216 (ii) 10.4107 (iii) 0.04597 (iv) 2808

Q 13.

Name two factors that introduce uncertainty into measured figures.

Q 14.

Q 15.

The density of water at room temperature is 1.0 g/mL. How many molecules are there in a drop of water if its volume is 0.05 mL?

Q 16.

How are 0.50 mol  Na2C03  and 0.50 M  Na2C03  different?

Q 17.

Pressure is determined as force per unit area of the surface. The S.I. unit of pressure, pascal, is as shown below:1 Pa = 1  Nm-2.If mass of air at sea level is 1034 g  cm-2,calculate the pressure in pascal.

Q 18.

Define molality. How does molality depend on temperature?

Q 19.

Define the term ‘unit’ of measurement.

Q 20.

In the reaction, A + B2——> AB2, identify the limiting reagent, if any, in the following  mixtures
(i) 300 atoms of A + 200 molecules ofB
(ii) 2 mol A + 3 mol B
(iii) 100 atoms of A + 100 molecules ofB
(iv) 5 mol A + 2.5 mol B
(v) 2.5 mol A + 5 mol B

Q 21.

Calculate the molecular mass of the following:
(i)  H20(ii)  C02(iii)  CH4

Q 22.

Express the following up to four significant figures.
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Q 23.

What is the molecular mass of a substance each molecule of which contains 9 atoms of carbon, 13 atoms of hydrogen and 2.33 x  10-23  g other component?

Q 24.

Calculate the mass of sodium acetate (CH3COONa) required to make 500 mL of 0.375 molar aqueous solution. Molar mass of sodium acetate is 82.0245 g  mol-1

Q 25.

What is the SI unit of molarity?

Q 26.

Use the data given in the following table to calculate the molar mass of naturally occurring argon.
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Q 27.

Chlorine is prepared in the laboratory by treating manganese dioxide (Mn02) with aqueous hydrochloric acid according to the reaction.
4 HCl (aq) + Mn02 (s) ———–> 2 H2O (l) + MnCl2(aq) +Cl2(g)

How many grams of HCl react with 5.0 g of manganese dioxide? (Atomic mass of Mn = 55 u)

Q 28.

Determine the empirical formula of an oxide of Iron which has 69.9 % iron and 30.1 % dioxygen by mass.

Q 29.

Determine the molecular formula of an oxide of iron in which the mass percent of iron and oxygen are 69.9 and 30.1 respectively. Given that the molar mass of the oxide is 159.8 g  mol-1(Atomic mass: Fe = 55.85, O = 16.00 amu)Calculation of Empirical Formula.

Q 30.

Calculate the concentration of nitric acid in moles per litre in a sample which has a density 1.41 g  mL-1  and the mass percent of nitric acid in it is being 69%.

Q 31.

What is the S.I. unit of mass?

Q 32.

Calculate the molarity of a solution of ethanol in water in which the mole fraction of ethanol is 0.040.

Q 33.

The following data were obtained when dinitrogen and dioxygen react together to form compounds:
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Q 34.

What is the number of significant figures in 1.050 x 104?

Q 35.

KCl03  on heating decomposes to give KCl and 02. What is the volume of  02 at N.T.P liberated by 0.1 mole of  KCl03?

Q 36.

What is an atom according to Dalton’s atomic theory?

Q 37.

Calculate the mass percent of different elements present in sodium sulphate (Na2 SO4).

Q 38.

Express the following in scientific notation:
(i) 0.0048 (v) 6.0012 (ii) 234,000 (iii) 8008 (iv) 500.0

Q 39.

The Vapour Density of a gaseous element is 5 times that of oxygen under similar conditions. If the molecule is triatomic, what will be its atomic mass?

Q 40.

Which one of the following will have largest number of atoms?
(i) 1 g Au (s) (ii) 1 g Na (s) (iii) 1 g Li (s) (iv) 1 g of  Cl2(g)  (Atomic masses: Au = 197, Na = 23, Li = 7, Cl = 35.5 amu)

Q 41.

How are 0.5 ml of NaOH differents from 0.5 M of NaOH?

Q 42.

What is the concentration of sugar (C12H22O11) in mol  L -1  if its 20 g are dissolved in enough water to make a final volume up to 2 L?

Q 43.

If ten volumes of dihydrogen gas reacts with five volumes of dioxygen gas, how many volumes of water vapour could be produced?

Q 44.

Calculate the number of moles in each of the following.

Q 45.

In three moles of ethane (C2H6), calculate the following:
(i) Number of moles of carbon atoms (ii) Number of moles of hydrogen atoms
(iii) Number of molecules of ethane

Q 46.

A sample of drinking water was found to be severely contaminated with chloroform, CHCly supposed to be carcinogenic in nature. The level of contamination was 15 ppm (by mass).
(i) Express this in percent by mass
(ii) Determine the molality of chloroform in the water sample.

Q 47.

Why air is not always regarded as homogeneous mixture?

Q 48.

Define law of conservation of mass.

Q 49.

The cost of table salt (NaCl) and table sugar (C12H22O11) are Rs 1 per kg and Rs 6 per kg respectively.Calculate their cost per mole.

Q 50.

If the density of methanol is 0.793 kg  L -1, what is its volume needed for making 2.5 L of its 0.25 M solution?