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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

General Certificate of Education
Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level

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CHEMISTRY
Paper 5 Planning, Analysis and Evaluation

October/November 2011
1 hour 15 minutes

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.

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When potassium nitrate dissolves in water, the temperature of the solution goes down
because the enthalpy of solution is endothermic.

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You are to plan an experiment to investigate how the solubility of potassium nitrate varies
with temperature. The units of solubility are grams per one hundred grams of water
(g / 100g water).

(a) (i)

Predict how the solubility of potassium nitrate will change if the solution temperature
is increased.
Explain your prediction using the fact that dissolving potassium nitrate is
endothermic.
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Display your prediction in the form of a sketch graph, labelling clearly the axes.

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(b) In the experiment you are about to plan, identify the following.
(i)

the independent variable ..........................................................................................

(ii)

the dependent variable .............................................................................................

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(c) Design a laboratory experiment to test your prediction in (a).
In addition to the standard apparatus present in a laboratory you are provided with the
following materials,
a boiling tube,
a looped wire stirrer,
a thermometer covering the temperature range 0 C to 100 C.
Describe how you would carry out the experiment. You should

ensure a wide range of results suitable for analysis by graph,

decide on the amounts of water and potassium nitrate to use,

measure the amounts of the two reagents,

heat the apparatus,

decide at what point the temperature of the solution is to be taken.

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(d) State a hazard that must be considered when planning the experiment and describe
precautions that should be taken to keep risks to a minimum.

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(e) Draw a table with appropriate headings to show the data you would record when carrying
out your experiments and the values you would calculate in order to construct a graph to
support or reject your prediction in (a). The headings must include the appropriate units.

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Chemical reactions occur more rapidly as the temperature of the reaction mixture increases.
The mathematical relationship that summarises this is
log10 (rate of reaction) =

EA
19T

where EA is the activation energy of the reaction and T is the absolute temperature in
Kelvin and the rate of reaction can be taken as the reciprocal of the time taken in seconds
(1/time).
An experiment was carried out to investigate this relationship using dilute hydrochloric acid
and aqueous sodium thiosulfate.
20 cm3 of dilute hydrochloric acid was placed in a boiling tube contained in a water bath.

20 cm3 of aqueous sodium thiosulfate was added to the dilute hydrochloric acid, while
stirring and a stopwatch started.

The temperature of the water bath was recorded.

After a period of time the liquid became cloudy (opaque) due to the formation of a
precipitate of sulfur.

As soon as this cloudiness (opacity) appeared the time was recorded.

The temperature of the water bath was raised and the whole experiment repeated.
(a) The results of several such experiments are recorded below.
Process the results in the table to calculate log10 (rate of reaction), the reciprocal of
the absolute temperature (1/T) and the rate of reaction (1/time). You should expect the
values of log10 (rate of reaction) to be negative.
Record these values to three significant figures in the additional columns of the table.
Label the columns you use. For each column you use include units where appropriate
and an expression to show how your values are calculated.
You may use the column headings A to F for these expressions (e.g. AB).
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temperature
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time
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(b) Plot a graph to show the relationship between log10 (rate of reaction) and the reciprocal of
the absolute temperature. You are reminded that the values for log10 (rate of reaction) are
negative.
Draw the line of best fit.

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(c) Circle and label on the graph any point(s) you consider to be anomalous. For each
anomalous point give a different reason why it is anomalous, clearly stating which point
you are describing.
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(d) Comment on whether the results obtained can be considered as reliable.
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(e) Determine the slope of the graph. Mark clearly on the graph any construction lines and
show clearly in your calculation how the values from the intercepts were used in the
calculation of the slope.

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Using the value of the slope of your graph calculated in (f) calculate a value for the
activation energy, EA. Correct use of the equation will produce an answer in kJ mol1.

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(g) By considering the movement of particles in the reaction explain why the rate of reaction
increases with increasing temperature.

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