CHEM125-B                                                                                                  Fall, 2006

Hourly Exam # 1                                                                                             Dunnivant

 

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There are 100 points.  The exam will be graded on a percentage basis.

 

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AvogadroÕs number = 6.022 x 1023 items/mol           

amu = 1.6605 x 10-24 g/amu

electron charge = 1.602 x 10-19 C

mass of neutron = 1.6749 x 10-24 g

mass of electron = 9.1094 x 10-28 g

mass of proton = 1.6726 x 10-24 g

 

NOTES:

-Show all work for partial credit.  

-Significant figures and units will be graded throughout the exam.

 

1.     (5 pts)  Explain the difference between a molecule and a compound.

 

 

2.      (2 pts each):

 

Give the chemical formula for aluminum sulfide (a compound, not an ion).

 

What is wrong with the following chemical formula?

 

Na2H2PO4

 

 

Name or give the chemical formula for:

 

Iron (III) chloride        ___________________

 

Strontium hydrogen phosphate           _______________________

 

KMnO4           ______________________________

 

Chloric acid     ________________________

 

Chromium (VI) nitrate            ____________________

 

 

Write an equation (unbalanced or balanced), containing all reactants and products for:

 

The reaction of an alkaline earth metal with hydrochloric acid:

 

Carbon dioxide and water

 

A hydrocarbon, say CH4 (methane), combusted in air

 

3.     (5 pts)  What is the conceptual basis behind the amu?  (What does it do for us?)

 

 

What is the basis behind the exact numerical value of the amu?

4.     (15 pts) When limestone, CaCO3, is heated it decomposes to form CO2 and lime, CaO.  If you decompose 1.000 kg of limestone, how much of each product will you theoretically produce?  Solve this problem by constructing a complete flow chart.

 

5.     (20 pts) Gasoline that is burned in cars typically contains C-8 hydrocarbons; a generic C-8 hydrocarbon is isooctane, C8H18.  When an engineer designs the combustion cylinder in a car they would ideally like all reactants to be there in perfect stiochiometric amounts.  If an apprentice engineer designs a Òtest burnÓ and introduces 150. grams of isooctane and 30.5 grams of O2, determine if a perfect stiochiometic ratio is present.  If not, which reactant is the limiting reagent? Next, create a complete flow chart, based on your limiting reagent, illustrating the masses and moles of each reactant and product.


6.     (15 pts) Determine the empirical formula for a compound with the following elemental composition:

 

C = 21.7 %                  O = 9.6 %                   F = 68.7 %

 

 

7.     (10 pts) Mercury has 7 stable isotopes as follows

 

Isotope                        Percent Abundance

196                              0.15

198                              10.0

199                              16.9

200                              23.1

201                              13.2

202                              29.8

204                              6.85

 

Confirm or dispute the gram atomic weight shown in the attached Periodic Table.


8.     Atomic Theory (2 pts each):

 

Dalton stated that ÒAtoms of an element are not changed into different types of atoms by reactions; atoms are neither created nor destroyed in reactionsÓ

a) What fundamental law did this evolve into?

 

b)  ThereÕs one exception to this law; what is it?

 

J.J. Thompson devised the ÔPlum PuddingÓ model of the atom.

a) Who disproved this model?

 

b) Very briefly (no pictures are necessary) describe how he did this.

 

J.J. Thompson experimented with the cathode ray tube, a precursor to the television tube.

a)  What two discoveries/observations can out of these experiments?

 

            1)

 

 

            2)