ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

9. Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic acid. A 5mL

1. The following data were taken in measuring the MW of sample of a particular vinegar requires 26.9 mL of 0.175
a certain gas by the Regnault Method: M NaOH for its titration. What is the molarity of acetic
Wt. of evacuated bulb = 42.5050 g acid in the vinegar?
Wt. of bulb + gas = 43.3412 g
Wt. of bulb + water = 3665.31 g
T = 25C ; P = 745 mmhg
The MW of the gas is?

10. A 0.500g sample of pure CaCO3 is dissolved in water to

which 50.00mL of HCl solution have been added. The
solution then requires 6.20mL of NaOH solution of
2. If 5g of NaCl is dissolved in water forming 1L solution, which 1.000mL= 1.010mL of the HCl. What is the
calculate the molarity of sodium ions. normality of the HCl solution?

3. A 2.35g sample was dissolved in water, and the chloride

ions were precipitated by adding silver nitrate. If 0.435g
of precipitate were obtained, what is the percentage of
chlorine in the sample?
11. The roasting of 100g of a copper ore yielded 75 g of
89.5% pure copper. If the ore is composed of cu2s and
cus with 11% inert impurity, calculate the percent of
cu2s in the ore

4. Calculate the pH of a 0.01M NH4(CH3COO)

ammonium acetate given Kb=1.6E-5 for NHR and
Ka=1.754E-5 for CH3COOH.

12. A sample of pyrite, fes2, contains only inert impurities

5. What is the molarity of a solution that contains 33.33%
H2SO4 by weight and has a density of 1.25 g/mL?
6. A current of electricity was passed through a series of
cells containing AgNO3, CuSO4 & H2SO4 solutions for a
period of 25 minutes. If the weight of silver deposited
was 0.5394g, what should be the weight of the copper?
and weighs .508 g. after the sample has been
decomposed and dissolved, a precipitate of 1.561 g
baso4 is obtained.if the calculated percentage of s in
the sample is 42.21%, what weight of ignited
precipitate would have been obtained if the fe in the
solution had been precipitated as feoh3 & ignited as
fe203?

7. When evacuated or empty a gas density bulb weighs 13. The half life of tritium is 12.3 yr. if 48mg of tritium is
29.3215 g. First, CO2 gas was used to fill the tub at 40C released from a nuclear powerplant during the curse of
and 1atm and weighed 30.0079g. The bulb was then
an accident, what mass of this nuclei will remain after
evacuated with a mixture of CO and CO2 under the
same temperature and pressure. With this mixture, the 49.2 years?
bulb weighed 29.9332g. Determine the % CO in the
mixture.

8. What is the mass of the precipitate formed when

12.0mL of 0.150M NaCl is added to 25.0mL of a
0.0500M AgNO3 solution?

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14. A special purpose piece of laboratory glassware, called 3. Calculate the density of SO2 gas at 0.960atm & 35C.
psycnometer, is used to measure liquid densities. It has
a volume of 25cc and a mass of 17.24 g when it is full
of air. When filled with a liquid of unknown density, its
mass 45 g. what is the density of this liquid?

4. Mesitylene, a hydrocarbon that occurs in small amounts

of crude oil, has an empirical formula of C3H4. The
experimentally determined MW is 121. What is the
molecular formula of mesitylene?
15. Cobalt 60, which emits gamma rays and beta partiles,
is wildly used in medicine to kill cancer cells. If a
patient is given 6.80 micrograms of cobalt 60, how
much will remain after 20 yrs if its half life is 5.27
years?

5. An unknown gas effuses approximately half as fast as

methane at the same condition. What is the MW of
unknown hydrocarbon?

16. A sample of wood from Egyptian tomb gave a c-14

activity per unit mass of 7.3 per min. per g. what is the
age og the wood? Half life of c-14= 5730 years and
initial activilty of c-14 is 12.6 per min per g.
6. Calculate the average MW of the flue gas having the
following composition by volume 13.1% CO2, 7.7% O2
and the rest N2.

GENERAL CHEMISTRY

1. Two liters of an ideal gas, at a temperature of T1 = 25C
and a pressure of P1 = 0.101 MPa, are in a 10cm
diameter cylinder with a piston at one end. The piston
is depressed so that the cylinder is shoretened by 10cm.
The temperature increases by 2C. What is the final
pressure?
7. The formula of blue vitriol is CUSO4 5H2O. Calculate
the %CuSO4?
8. 1000 gal/min of water is cascading down the height of
100ft from a reservoir. If half of the energy generated is
converted to electrical energy, how many 105 watts
bulb can be lighted in 60s?

2. An ideal gas is contained in a vessel of unknown volume

at a pressure of 1atm. The gas is released & allowed to
expand into a previously evacuated bulb whose volume
is 0.500L. Once equilibrium has been reached, the
temperature remains the same while the pressure is
recorded as 500mmhg. What is the unknown volume, V,
of the first bulb?
9. A rubber balloon containing hydrogen has a volume of
3L. The temperature is 20C and the pressure exerted
by the H2 is 850mm. The balloon rises to the ceiling
where it expands to 3200mL and the pressure
diminishes to 840mm. Calculate the temperature near
the ceiling.

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10. Under identical conditions, gaseous CO2 and CCl4 are
allowed to effuse through a pinhole. If the rate of the
effusion of CO2 is 6.3E-2mol/s, what is the rate of 1.
effusion of CCl4?
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Carbon dioxide decompose at elevated
temperature to carbon monoxide and oxygen
2CO2(g) 2CO(g) +O2(g)
At 3000K, 2 mol of CO2 is placed in a 1-L container
and allowed to equilibriate. At equilibrium, 0.90
mol CO2 remains.

11. What is the total vapor pressure in torr of a mixture of

H2O (l) and 0.123 mol of CH4 (g) at T=30C and a total
vapor volume of 20.0L?

12. A protein molecule is known to bind one molecule of

oxygen per molecule of protein. A 12.2g of protein bind
9.8 mg of O2, what is the MW of protein?

13. A Fahrenheit and a Centigrade thermometer are both

immersed in a fluid and indicate a Fahrenheit reading
that is numerically twice that of the centigrade reading.
What is the temp. of the fluid expressed as Kelvin?

14. At 20C and 1atm, 1L of H2O will absorb a 0.043g of O2

or 0.19g N2. Atmospheric air is 20.9% O2 by volume,
and the remainder is assumed to be N2. What mass of
O2 will be expressed to 20C at 1 atm.

15. At 25C the vapor pressure of pure benzene is 0.1252

atm. If we dissolve a 6.40g of an unknown hydrocarbon
in 78g of pure benzene. We observe that the pressure
of the benzene in the solution is 0.1192atm. What is the
MW of the unknown solid?