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CHEM 16 Practice Problems:

1. Automotive air bags inflate when sodium azide, NaN3, rapidly decomposes to its component
elements.
(a) How many moles of nitrogen gas are produced by the decomposition of 1.50 moles of
NaN3?
(b) How many grams of NaN3 are required to form 5.00 g of nitrogen gas?
2. One of the steps in the commercial process for converting ammonia to nitric acid involves the
conversion of NH3 to NO:
NH3(g) + O2(g) → NO(g) + H2O(g)

(a) In a certain experiment 2.50 g NH3 reacts with 2.85 g of O2. How many grams of NO
form?

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(b) How much of the excess reactants remains after the limiting reactant is completely
consumed?
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(a) How many milliliters of stock solution of 12.0 M HNO 3 would you have to use to
prepare 0.500 L of 0.200 M HNO3?
(b) If you dilute 20.0 mL of the stock solution to a final volume of 1.00 L, what will be the
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concentration of the diluted solution?
(c) Calculate the concentration of the ions formed when 3.50 g of KCl in 60.0 mL of 0.500
M CaCl2 solution (assume that the volumes are additive) are mixed.
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4. How many milliliters of 2.50 M H2SO4 are needed to neutralize 75.0 g of NaOH?
5. Calculate the ∆U, and determine whether the process is endothermic or exothermic for the
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following cases:
(a) a system releases 113 kJ of heat to the surroundings and does 39 kJ of work on the
surroundings.
(b) the system absorbs 77.5 kJ of heat while doing 63.5 kJ of work on the surroundings.
6. Using the table below, write thermochemical equations for the following:
(a) mercury thawing
(b) bromine vaporizing
7. Consider the following reaction:
CH3OH (g) → CO (g) + 2 H2 (g) ∆H = +90.7

(a) Is the reaction exothermic or endothermic?

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(b) Calculate the amount of heat transferred when 45.0 g of CH3OH(g) are decomposed
by this reaction at constant pressure.
(c) If the enthalpy change is 16.5 kJ, how many grams of hydrogen gas are produced?
(d) How many kilojoules of heat are released when 10.0 g of CO (g) reacts completely
with H2(g) to form CH3OH (g) at constant pressure?
8. The specific heat of copper metal is 0.0385 J/g-K. How many joules of heat are necessary to
raise the temperature of a 1.42 kg block of copper from 25.0°C to 88.5°C?
9. A 1.800 g sample of octane (C8H18), was burned in a bomb calorimeter whose total heat
capacity is 11.66 kJ/°C. The temperature of the calorimeter plus contents increases from 21.36°C
to 28.78°C. What is the heat of combustion per gram of octane? Per mole of octane?
10. From the following enthalpies of reaction:
H2 (g) + F2 (g) → 2 HF (g) ∆H = -537 kJ

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C (s) + 2 F2 (g) → CF4 (g) ∆H = -680 kJ

2 C (s) + 2 H2 (g) → C2H4 (g) ∆H = +52.3 kJ


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Use Hess’s law to calculate the ∆H for the reaction of ethylene (C2H4) with F2:
C2H4 (g) + 6F2 (g) → 2 CF4 (g) + 4 HF (g)
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11. Consider the combustion of one mole of acetylene (C 2H2) which yields carbon dioxide and
liquid water. Calculate ∆H using the table below.
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12. Use bond enthalpies to estimate the enthalpy change for each of the following reactions:
(a) HCN (g) + 2 H2 (g) → CH3NH2 (g)

(b) N2H4 (g) + H2O (g) → NH2OH (g) + NH3 (g)


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13. For which of the following processes given below does the entropy of the system increase?
(a) the melting of the ice cubes at -5°C and 1 atm pressure
(b) dissolution of sugar in a cup of hot coffee
(c) the reaction of nitrogen atoms to form N2 molecules at 25°C and 1 atm
(d) alignment of the iron fillings in a magnetic field
(e) CO (g) + 2 H2 (g) → CH3OH (l)
(f) FeCl2 (s) + H2 (g) → Fe (s) + 2 HCl (g)

14. Describe and discuss the ∆G values and spontaneity conditions for each of the following
reactions.
(a) N2 (g) + 3 F2 (g) → 2 NF3 (g) ∆H° = -249 kJ ∆S° = -278 J/K
(b) N2 (g) + 3 Cl2 (g) → 2 NCl3 (g) ∆H° = +460 kJ ∆S° = -275 J/K
(c) N2F4 (g) → 2 NF2 (g) ∆H° = +85 kJ ∆S° = +198 J/K

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15. In the course of the combustion analysis of an unknown compound containing only carbon,
hydrogen, and nitrogen, 12.923 g of carbon dioxide and 6.608 g of water were measured.
Treatment of the nitrogen with H2 gas resulted in 2.501g NH3. The complete combustion of 11.014
g of the compound needed 10.573 g of oxygen. What the compound’s empirical formula?
16. Compound X, commonly used in the dye industry and in photography, is an organic compound
containing only C, H, and O. What is the empirical formula of the compound if you find that 0.105
g of the compound gives 0.257 g of CO2 and 0.0350 g of H2O when burned completely? Given a
molecular weight of approximately 108 g/mol, what is its molecular formula?
17. Determine the simplest formula for each of the following compounds:
(a) copper(II) tartrate: 30.03% Cu; 22.70% C;1.91% H; 45.37% O.
(b) nitrosyl fluoroborate: 11.99% N; 13.70% O; 9.25% B; 65.06% F.

Table:

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Substance ∆H0f (kJ/ mol)
Br (g) +111.8
Br – (aq) -120.9
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Br2 (g)
Br2 (l)
HBr (g)
+30.71
0
-36.23
C
CaCl2 (s) -795.8
Ca(OH)2 (s) -986.2
C2H2 (g) +226.7
C6H6 (g) +82.9
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C6H6 (l) +49.0


H2O (g) -241.82
H2O (l) -285.83
Hg(g) +60.83
Hg (l) 0
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HgCl2 (s) -230.1


Hg2Cl2 (s) -264.9
O (g) +247.5
O2 (g) 0
O3 (g) +142.3

Bonds Bond N-N 163 C≡N 891


Enthalpy N-O 201 C=N 615
(kJ/mol) O-H 463 C=O 799
C-H 413 O-O 146 C≡O 1072
C-C 348 H-H 436 N=N 418
C-N 293 C=C 614 N≡N 941
N-H 391 C≡C 839 N=O 607

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