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What is Avogadro’s Constant?

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There are 6.022 x 10^23 atoms in 12g of carbon-12

- therefore 1 mole of any specified entity is 6.022 x 10^23 of that entity

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What is the mole?

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amount of substance in g that has the same no. of particles as there are atoms in 12g of Carbon-12

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What is relative atomic mass (Ar) ?

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  • the average mass of 1 atom compared to 1/12 of the mass of 1 atom of Carbon-12
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What is relative molecular formula (Mr) ?

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  • the average mass of 1 molecule compared to 1/12 of the mass of 1 atom of Carbon-12
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Formula of moles for pure solids and gases

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Moles (mol) = Mass (g) /Mr

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Formula of moles for gases

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PV=nRT
P pressure in Pa
V volume in m^3
n moles
R gas contant (given)
T temp in Kelvin
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Formula of moles for solutions

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Conc (mol dm^-3 or M) = moles/ vol (dm^3)

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Conversion for centimetre cubed to decimetre cubed

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Divide by 1000

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Convert Celcius to Kelvin

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+ 273

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What number of sig fig do you answer with?

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  • use the smallest given in Q
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No. of particles formula?

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No. of particles = Moles x Avogadro’s constant

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Density formula?

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Mass/ Vol
- mass in g
- vol in cm3
units for density g cm^-3

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What’s an empirical formula?

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  • simplest ratio of atoms of each element in the compound
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General method for calculating empirical formula

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1 divide each mass (or % mass) by their atomic mass
2 for each of the answers divide them by the smallest one of those numbers
3 sometimes numbers calculated need to be multiplied to be whole numbers

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What’s a molecular formula (from empirical formula)?

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  • the actual number of atoms of each element in the compound
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How do you find Mr from mass spectrometer?

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  • the molecular ion (peak with highest m/z) will be equal to Mr
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What’s the percentage yield?

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actual yield / theoretical yield X 100

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What’s percentage atom economy?

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Mr of desired products / sum of Mr of all products X 100

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Reason for low atom economies?

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  • inefficient, wasteful processes - atoms wasted & not made into useful products
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why are high atom economies good?

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  • it’s an efficient process and is important for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT as they have fewer natural resources & create less waste
  • also less unwanted products made
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1 mole of any gas at room temp & room pressure will have what volume?

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  • volume of 24 decimetre cubed
22
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State room pressure and temp

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25 degrees Celsius

1 atm

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Method : Water of crystallization

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1 weigh empty dry crucible & lid
2 Add 2g of hydrated calcium sulphate to the crucible & weigh again
3 Heat strongly with bunsen burner for a couple of mins & allow to cool
4 weigh crucible and contents again
5 heat crucible again & reweigh until you reach a constant mass (ensures reaction is complete)

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Why shouldn’t large masses e.g. 50 g of hydrated calcium sulphate be used?

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  • decomposition is likely to be incomplete
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Why does crucible need to dry in the water of crystallization experiment?
- wet crucible would give an inaccurate result | - it would cause mass loss to be too large as water would be lost when heating
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Why is the lid kept on the crucible?
- improves accuracy as prevents loss of solid from crucible | - BUT should be loose fitting to allow gas to escape
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Why shouldn't a small amount of solid be used in water of crystallization experiment?
- errors in weighing will be too high
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What care should you take when drawing a gas syringe diagram?
- make sure you don't leave gaps in diagram where gas could escape - when drawing gas syringe draw some measurement marking on barrel
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Potential errors in using a gas syringe?
- gas escapes before bung is inserted - syringe sticks - some gases like carbon or sulfur dioxide are soluble in water so the true amount of gas isn't measured
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What's a standard solution?
- a solution for which the concentration is accurately known
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Describe how to make up a volumetric solution
TRANSFER KNOWN MASS OF SOLID - weigh sample bottle containing solids on a (2 dp) balance - transfer to beaker & reweigh sample bottle - record difference in mass DISSOLVES IN WATER - add distilled/deionised water - stir or swirl with GLASS ROD - until all solid has dissolved TRANSFER, WASHING & AGITATION - transfer to VOLUMETRIC flask - with washings - make up to 250cm^3 mark with water - shake for uniform concentration
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Why is using a volumetric pipette more accurate than a measuring cylinder?
- because it has a smaller uncertainty
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Why shouldn't you use heat or put hot solutions in a volumetric flask?
because heat would cause flask to expand and give incorrect volume
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What's uncertainty?
- estimate attached to a measurement that gives the range of values within which the true lies
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Percentage error calculation
uncertainty / quantity measured x 100
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percentage uncertainty calculation
2 x uncertainty in each measurement/quantity measured X 100
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What makes a balance more accurate?
- the more decimal places a balance reads, the SMALLER the percentage error
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When weighing out a smaller mass, the percentage error is what?
- more significant
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How to reduce percentage error in water of crystallisation?
- record mass to 2 dp | - larger mass of hydrated crystals
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Why would using a larger mass of solid in making up a standard solution be more accurate?
- a larger mass of solid dissolved gives a smaller weighing error so it will be a more accurate solution
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Titration method
1 rinse burette with solution you're going to fill it with - discard rinsings & fill burette 2 rinse pipette with solution you're going to pipette into conical flask. Using pipette & pipette filler transfer 25.0cm^3 of this solution into a conical flask 3 Add 2-3 drops of a suitable indicator to the conical flask (use white tile underneath to observe colour change) 4 Add the solution from burette with constant SWIRLING until the indicator just changes colour 5 Repeat to achieve 2-3 concordant results, adding the solution in DROPWISE near the endpoint 6 calculate mean titre from the concordant results
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What are concordant titre results?
- those that agree to within 0.1cm^3
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Theoretical reasons for why percentage yield may be less than 100%
- side reactions occur, by-products produced instead of expected products - reagents used may be impure - reaction is incomplete
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Practical reasons for why percentage yield may be less than 100%
- some lost in the purification steps e.g. washing, separating in the separating funnel & in transfer between apparatus - some product is lost in distillation

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