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What catalyst is used in the contact process?
Vanadium Pentoxide catalyst (V₂O₅) is used. This does not change the position of equilibrium.
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What type of reaction is stage 2 of the contact process?
Exothermic (and reversible)
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What happens if the temperature is reduced (in the contact process)?
More product but an extremely slow reaction. A compromise of 450°C is used to get a high yield quickly.
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What pressure is used in the contact process?
Atmospheric pressure (1 atm) because increasing it would make it expensive and shifting equilibrium to right is not necessary as it is already at the right.
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What happens to equilibrium when the concentration of reactants is increased (in ammonia equation)?
Adding more Nitrogen or hydrogen means the equilibrium tries to decrease it by shifting to the right, making more NH3.
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What process is used to make sulphuric acid?
The contact process
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What happens to equilibrium when the temperature is increased?
It moves to try and decrease it. Moves in the endothermic direction.
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What is the first stage of the contact process?
To make sulfur dioxide (SO₂) sulfur + oxygen → sulfur dioxide S (s) + O₂ (g) → SO₂ (g) Usually by burning sulfur in the air
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What happens to the equilibrium when the concentration of product is increased?
By adding more NH3, the equilibrium tries to reduce it again. By shifting to the left making more nitrogen and hydrogen.
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What 3 things can change the position of equilibrium?
Temperature, pressure and concentration.
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What is the second stage of the contact process?
Sulfur dioxide is oxidised with help of a catalyst to make sulfur trioxide sulfur dioxide + oxygen ⇌ sulfur trioxide 2SO₂ (g) + O₂ (g) ⇌ 2SO₂ (g)
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What happens to equilibrium when the pressure is increased?
The equilibrium moves to try and reduce it. It moves in the direction where there are fewer moles of gas.
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When does equilibrium only take place?
If the reversible reaction takes place in a closed system meaning none of the reactants or products can escape.
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What is the third stage of the contact process?
Sulfur trioxide is used to make sulfuric acid sulfur trioxide + water → sulfuric acid SO₂ (g) + H₂O (l) → H₂SO₄ (aq)
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What happens to equilibrium when the pressure is decreased?
The equilibrium tries to increase it. It overs in. The direction where there are more moles of gas.
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What does it mean if the equilibrium lies to the left?
Lots of the reactants but not much of the products. The concentration of reactants is greater than the concentration of the products.
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What happens to equilibrium when adding a catalyst?
It won’t change the position, it speeds up both the forward and backward reactions by the same amount, adding a catalyst means the reaction reaches equilibrium quicker, but you end up with the same amount of products as you would without the catalyst.
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What does it mean if the equilibrium lies to the right?
Lots of the products and not much of the reactants. The concentration of product is greater than concentration of the reactant.
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What happens to equilibrium when the temperature is decreased?
It moves to try and increase the temperature. Moves in the exothermic direction to produce more heat.
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What is relationship between product formed and limiting reactants?
The amount of Podunk formed is directly proporation all to the amount of limiting reactant. E.g halving the amount of limiting reactant will halve the gas produced.
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What is a reversible reaction?
One where the products of the reactions can themselves react to produce the original reactants.
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What is equilibrium?
When the forward reaction is going at exactly the same rate as the backward one. Meaning the concentrations of reactants and products have reached a balance and won’t change.
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Describe measuring the mass of gas produced…
Can be measured by carrying out the experiment on a mass balance. As gas is released, the mass disappearing is easily measured on the balance. Most accurate because the mass balance is very accurate. But the gas is released straight out into the room.
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What does one mole of any gas always occupy?
24dm cubed at RTP.