Centre Number

71

Candidate Number

ADVANCED SUBSIDIARY (AS)

General Certificate of Education
2011

Chemistry
Assessment Unit AS 3
assessing

AC131
Module 3: Practical Examination 1
[AC131]

TUESDAY 10 MAY

TIME
2 hours 30 minutes.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your Centre Number and Candidate Number in the spaces
provided at the top of this page.
Answer all five questions.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

The total mark for this paper is 90. Marks
Section A Question
Number Teacher Examiner
Question 1 is a practical exercise worth 25 marks.
Mark Check
Question 2 is a practical exercise worth 29 marks.
Section B 1
Question 3 is a planning exercise worth 20 marks. 2
Questions 4 and 5 are written questions worth a total of
16 marks, testing aspects of experimental chemistry. 3
Figures in brackets printed down the right-hand side of 4
pages indicate the marks awarded to each question or
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part question.
A Periodic Table of Elements (including some data) is
Total
provided. Marks
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 Section A Teacher Examiner Remark
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1 Titration exercise

Sulfuric acid is used in car batteries.

You are required to carry out a titration and use the results to
calculate the concentration of the acid obtained from a car battery.

You are provided with:

Sodium hydroxide solution of concentration 0.10 mol dm3

A solution containing 0.80 cm3 of car battery acid diluted to 250 cm3
with distilled water
Phenolphthalein indicator

(a) Describe how you would ensure that your titration is both
accurate and reliable.

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 (b) Carry out the titration by: Teacher Examiner Remark
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l rinsing out a burette with the 0.10 mol dm3 sodium

hydroxide solution
l filling the burette with the 0.10 mol dm3 sodium hydroxide
solution
l transferring 25.0 cm3 of the diluted car battery acid to the
conical flask
l adding 2–3 drops of phenolphthalein indicator to the
solution in the conical flask and titrating until the end point
is reached.

Present your results in a suitable table and calculate the

average titre.

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(c) State the colour change at the end point of your titration.

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(d) Write the equation for the reaction of sulfuric acid with sodium
hydroxide.

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 (e) (i) Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide used Teacher Examiner Remark
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in the titration.

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(ii) Calculate the number of moles of sulfuric acid in 25.0 cm3

of diluted car battery acid.

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(iii) Calculate the number of moles of sulfuric acid in 250 cm3

of diluted car battery acid.

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(iv) Calculate the number of moles of sulfuric acid in 0.80 cm3

of the undiluted car battery acid.

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(v) Calculate the concentration of sulfuric acid in the undiluted

car battery acid in mol dm3.

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(vi) Calculate the concentration of sulfuric acid in the undiluted

car battery acid in g dm3.

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2 Observation/deduction Teacher Examiner Remark
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Safety glasses must be worn at all times and care should be taken
during this practical examination.

(a) You are provided with a mixture of two salts, labelled X, which
have a common cation. Carry out the following experiments on
the mixture. Record your observations and deductions in the
spaces below and identify the two salts.

Experiment Observations Deductions

1 Describe X.

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2 (a) Fill a test tube one quarter full of
water and record the temperature.

(b) Add three spatula measures of X

to the test tube, stir and record the
temperature.

(c) Record the temperature change.

Keep the contents of this test tube
for experiments 3 and 4. [1] [1]
3 (a) Add 1–2 cm3 of the solution formed
in experiment 2 above to another
test tube.

(b) Acidify with 1 cm3 of dilute nitric acid

and then add 1 cm3 of silver nitrate
solution.

(c) Add 5 cm3 of dilute ammonia

solution to the test tube. [3] [3]
4 (a) Add 1–2 cm3 of the solution formed
in experiment 2 above to another
test tube.

(b) Acidify with 3 drops of dilute nitric

acid and then add 3 drops of
barium chloride solution. [1] [1]
5 Add a spatula measure of X to a test
tube one third full of dilute sodium
hydroxide solution and warm gently,
testing any gas evolved with moist
Universal Indicator paper. [2] [3]
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Name the two salts present in X: Mark Check

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 (b) You are provided with an aqueous solution of an organic liquid labelled Y. Carry out
the following experiments on the solution. Record your observations and deductions in
the spaces below.

Experiment Observations Deductions

1 Describe the smell of
solution Y.

[1] [1]
2 Using a glass rod place a drop
of Y onto Universal Indicator
paper.

[1] [1]
3 Add a spatula measure of
anhydrous sodium carbonate
to a test tube one quarter full
of solution Y and identify the
gas evolved using a suitable
reagent.

[2] [2]
4 Add 1 cm3of Y to a test tube
and then add a 2 cm length of
magnesium ribbon.

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Based on the above tests, suggest a functional group which Teacher Examiner Remark
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is present in Y.

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Y contains only one functional group and two carbon atoms.

Write an equation for the reaction occurring in experiment 4
above.

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 Section B Teacher Examiner Remark
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3 Planning

(a) The enthalpy of combustion of ethanol can be found using a

calorimeter. The apparatus used is shown below.

thermometer

water

screen

ethanol

(i) Explain the purpose of the screen.

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(ii) State which three masses should be recorded at the start

and end of the experiment.

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(iii) The specific heat capacity of water at 20 °C is

4.18 J g–1°C–1. Explain what this means.

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 (b) In an experiment 0.35 g of ethanol was burned raising the Teacher Examiner Remark
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temperature of 300 g of water by 5.5 °C.

(i) Calculate the molar enthalpy of combustion of ethanol.

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(ii) The value quoted for this combustion in tables of

thermodynamic data is –1367 kJ mol–1. State two reasons
why the value determined in the above experiment is
different to the tabulated value.

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(c) The enthalpy of combustion for ethanol may also be calculated

using Hess’s Law and average bond enthalpy values.

(i) Write the equation for the complete combustion of ethanol.

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(ii) Given the data below, calculate the standard enthalpy of

combustion for ethanol.

Bond Bond Enthalpy/kJ mol–1

CC 346
CH 413
CO 360
CO 740
OH 463
OO 497

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 (iii) The tabulated values for the enthalpies of combustion for Teacher Examiner Remark
ethanol and propan–1–ol are –1367 and –2021 kJ mol–1 Mark Check

respectively. Use these values to estimate the enthalpy of

combustion for pentan–1–ol.

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(iv) All alcohols burn in a plentiful supply of oxygen to produce

carbon dioxide and water. Name two other chemicals
which are produced in the incomplete combustion of an
alcohol.

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4 Diethyl ether, C2H5–O–C2H5, is a highly flammable, colourless Teacher Examiner Remark
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liquid with a boiling point of 35 °C. It can be prepared by the slow
addition of ethanol to concentrated sulfuric acid followed by heating
in a distillation apparatus to 155 °C. The crude distillate is cooled in
an ice bath as it is collected.

2C2H5OH  →  C2H5–O–C2H5    H2O

(a) Suggest the role of the concentrated sulfuric acid in this

preparation.

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(b) (i) Suggest why the diethyl ether collected must be cooled in
an ice bath.

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(ii) Suggest an organic impurity which would be present in the

crude distillate.

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(c) The crude distillate is purified by shaking with a 10% sodium

carbonate solution in a separating funnel. Once separated the
organic layer is further treated with anhydrous magnesium
sulfate.

(i) State the purpose of adding sodium carbonate solution to

the crude distillate.

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(ii) Explain why diethyl ether does not mix with water.

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(iii) State the purpose of the anhydrous magnesium sulfate.

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(iv) How would the magnesium sulfate be removed from the

organic layer?

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 (v) The diethyl ether is finally purified by distillation. Explain Teacher Examiner Remark
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why distillation achieves a satisfactory separation.

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5 (a) Explain, with expected observations, how you would use

aqueous sodium hydroxide to distinguish between aqueous
solutions of aluminium nitrate and magnesium nitrate.

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(b) State two tests, including expected observations, which would

confirm that an unknown solution contains dissolved iron(III)
and sodium ions without the use of either aqueous ammonia
or sodium hydroxide.

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sodium ion test _ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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