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HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY

EDUCATION EXAMINATION
Mock Examination (Foundation Tier) Candidate Number

CHEMISTRY PAPER 1
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SECTION B: Question-Answer Book B
Marker No. Examiner No.
This paper must be answered in English.

INSTRUCTIONS Question No. Marks Marks

(1) Write your Candidate Number in the space provided on 1

Page 1.
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(2) Stick barcode labels in the spaces provided on Pages 1, 3, 5,
7 and 9. 3

(3) Refer to the general instructions on the cover of the 4

Question Book for Section A.
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(4) This section consists of TWO parts, Part I and Part II. Part
I carries 56 marks and Part II carries 28 marks. The marks 6
to each question are indicated in brackets at the end of the
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question.
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(5) Answer ALL questions in each part. Write your answers in
the spaces provided in this Question-Answer Book. Do not 9
write in the margins. Answers written in the margins will
not be marked. 10

(6) Supplementary answer sheets will be provided on request. 11

Write your candidate number, fill in the question number
and stick a barcode label on each sheet. Tie them loosely 12
but securely with a string INSIDE this Question-Answer
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Book.
Total
(7) A Periodic Table is printed on the back of this Question-
Answer Book. Atomic numbers and relative atomic masses
of elements can be obtained from the Periodic Table.

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PART I

Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.

1. Sodium sulphide is a high melting point solid which conducts electricity when molten. Carbon disulphide
is a liquid which does not conduct electricity.

(a) Draw an electron diagram of sodium sulphide, showing electrons in the outermost shells only.

(b) Draw an electron diagram of carbon disulphide, showing electrons in the outermost shells only.
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(c) In terms of the forces between particles, explain why there is a large difference in the melting point
between sodium sulphide and carbon disulphide.

(d) Explain why buckminsterfullerene is soluble in carbon disulphide.

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2. (a) Upon strong heating, an oxide of metal M (M2O) decomposes to give M and oxygen only.

(i) Explain why the decomposition is a redox reaction.

(ii) In an experiment, 5.80 g of M2O completely decomposed to give 5.40 g of M. Calculate the
relative atomic mass of M.

(Relative atomic mass: O = 16.0)

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(b) (i) Suggest how copper(II) oxide can be reduced to copper using carbon. State the expected
observation.

(ii) Write a chemical equation for the reaction between copper(II) oxide and carbon.

(c) Is it possible to deduce from the experiments in (a) and (b) that copper occupies a higher position in
the metal reactivity series than metal M does? Explain your answer.

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3. Wine is an aqueous solution of ethanol. Once opened, oxidation of the ethanol in the wine produces
ethanoic acid.

The following experiment was carried out to determine the percentage of the ethanol in a white wine that
has oxidized.

Step 1 A white wine with an ethanol concentration 2.25 mol dm–3 was opened and allowed to stand at
room temperature for 2 weeks.

Step 2 Portions of the wine of volume 25.0 cm3 each were titrated against 0.211 mol dm–3 sodium
hydroxide solution using a suitable indicator.

The table below lists the titration results obtained:

Titration 1 2 3 4
Burette reading

Final reading (cm3) 26.95 26.60 26.45 26.80

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Initial reading (cm3) 0.00 0.20 0.00 0.40

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(a) In the titration, the 0.211 mol dm sodium hydroxide solution was used as a standard solution.

(i) What does the term ‘standard solution’ mean?

(ii) Comment whether it is appropriate to prepare a standard solution of sodium hydroxide by the
following procedure:

‘Weigh a sample of solid sodium hydroxide, dissolve it in some distilled water and make up to a
known volume of solution.’

(b) (i) Suggest a suitable indicator for the titration, and state the expected colour change at the end
point.

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(ii) Suggest another method for detecting the titration end point without the use of any acid-alkali
indicator.

(c) Based on the titration results, calculate

(i) a reasonable average for the volume the sodium hydroxide solution used.
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(ii) the concentration of the ethanoic acid in the wine.

(iii) calculate the percentage of the ethanol that has oxidized.

(d) Suggest why this method is unsuitable for the analysis of the acid content of a red wine.

(10 marks)

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4. A student had a pure copper rod and an impure copper rod which was contaminated with silver and
zinc. He tried to carry out a copper refining experiment in the laboratory by electrolysis, using copper(II)
sulphate as the electrolyte.

(a) Draw a labelled diagram to show the set-up for the refining of the impure copper rod.
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(b) Describe and explain what would happen at

(i) the impure copper rod;

(ii) the pure copper rod.

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5. (a) For each of the following molecules, draw its three-dimensional structure:

(i) SF2

(ii) SF6
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(b) Account for the following:

‘For sulphur, the fluorides SF2 and SF6 are known to exist, whereas for oxygen only OF2 is known to
exist.’

(3 marks)

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6. Propene can be used to make other important chemical products. Some of the processes involved are
shown in the flow diagram below.

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CH2=CHCH3 /J CH3CH2CH3
CH2(OH)CH(OH)CH3
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CH3CH2CH2Br
polypropene
1-bromopropane

(a) What is added in Reaction 1 to make the product CH2(OH)CH(OH)CH3?

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(b) Propene undergoes polymerization to form polypropene.

(i) Explain the meaning of the term ‘polymerization’.

(ii) Draw the repeating unit of polypropene.

(iii) Polypropene fibres can be used to make fleece which is used at some horse racing courses to
prevent the ground becoming frozen.

State ONE advantage of using polypropene instead of natural fibres of similar cost.

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(c) Reaction 4 occurred when a mixture of propane and bromine was exposed to sunlight.

(i) State the expected observation.

(ii) Write equations for the following steps in the reaction.

(1) Initiation step

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(2) First propagation step

(iii) Further substitution in the reaction of propane with bromine produces a mixture of liquid
carbon compounds.

Name a technique which could be used to separate the different compounds in this mixture.

(8 marks)

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7. A student investigated the following reaction which could be used to warm up coffee in self-heating cans.

Mg(s) + Cu(NO3)2(aq) Mg(NO3)2(aq) + Cu(s)

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The student first placed 150.0 cm of 0.100 mol dm Cu(NO3)2(aq) in a polystyrene calorimeter and
recorded its temperature every minute for 4 minutes. At the fifth minute, the student added 1.00 g of
magnesium to the solution, replaced the lid and stirred. Then he recorded the temperature of the mixture
every minute for 5 minutes. The graph below shows the plot of temperature against time.


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(a) Find, from the graph, the maximum temperature rise of the mixture. (You should show your working
on the graph.)

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(b) Show, by calculations, which of the two reactants is in excess.

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(c) Assuming that the specific heat capacity and the density of the mixture are 4.18 J g –1 K –1 and
1.00 g cm–3 respectively, calculate the enthalpy change of this reaction, in kJ mol–1.

(6 marks)

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For question 8, candidates are required to give answers in paragraph form. For this question, 6
marks will be awarded for chemical knowledge and 3 marks for effective communication.

8. There are four unlabelled reagent bottles each containing one of the white solids listed below:

ammonium carbonate, ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate and sodium sulphate

Suggest how you would carry out tests to distinguish the four solids from one another.
(9 marks)
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END OF PART I

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PART II

Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.

9. Outline a synthetic route to accomplish each of the following conversions. For each step, give the
reagent(s), the condition(s) and the structure(s) of the intermediate product(s).

(a) O

CH3CCH3 CH3CH=CH2
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(b) CH3CH2CH2CH2Cl CH3CH2CH2COOH

(6 marks)
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10. Ester X is used as a solvent for paints and varnishes. Its structure is shown below.

H3C C O CHCH3

CH3

Ester X can be manufactured by heating an alcohol under reflux with ethanoic acid and a catalyst.

(a) State the name of the alcohol used to make ester X.

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(b) State a suitable catalyst for this reaction.

(c) Explain why the reaction is carried out under reflux.

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(d) Draw a labelled diagram of the experimental set-up for heating the alcohol with ethanoic acid under
reflux.
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(e) Compound Y shown below is an isomer of ester X.

HO C CH2CH2CH2CH3

(i) State the type of structural isomerism X and Y exhibit.

(ii) Identify a reagent which could be used to distinguish between X and Y. State what you would
observe.

(8 marks)

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11. An experiment was carried out to study the kinetics of the reaction:

Br2(aq) + HCOOH(aq) 2Br–(aq) + 2H+(aq) + CO2(g)

The progress of the reaction was followed by using the instrument shown below.

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(a) What is this instrument?

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(b) What physical parameter of the reaction mixture is measured by this instrument?

(c) Sketch a graph to show the variation of the measured physical parameter with time.

(d) Suggest how the initial rate for the disappearance of Br2(aq) can be found from the graph sketched in
(c).

(4 marks)

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12. A mixture of methane and steam reached equilibrium in a 2.00 dm3 container.

CH4(g) + H2O(g) CO(g) + 3H2(g)

(a) Complete the table below to show the number of moles of each gas.

Species

CH4(g) H2O(g) CO(g) H2(g)

Number of moles at start 0.600 0.616 0.00 0.00

Number of moles at equilibrium 0.200

(b) Calculate the equilibrium constant, Kc, for the reaction and state the units.
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(c) In another experiment, methane and steam were placed in a closed container and allowed to react
at a fixed temperature. The following graph shows the changes in concentrations of methane and
carbon monoxide as the reaction proceeded.
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(i) On the graph above, draw a line to show the change in concentration of hydrogen as the
reaction proceeded. Label this line X.

(ii) On the graph above, draw a line to show how the formation of carbon monoxide would differ
over time in the presence of a catalyst. Label this line Y.
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13. Sodium, aluminium and chlorine are elements in Period 3 of the periodic table.

(a) Write the chemical equation for the reaction between sodium oxide (Na2O) and water.

(b) Write the chemical equation for the reaction between dichlorine heptoxide (Cl2O7) and water.
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(c) Aluminium oxide is an amphoteric oxide.

(i) What is meant by the term ‘amphoteric’?

(ii) Write ionic equations to show the amphoteric nature of aluminium oxide.

(5 marks)

END OF PART II

END OF SECTION B

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PERIODIC TABLE

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Group atomic number 0

1 2
H He
I II 1.0 III IV V VI VII 4.0
3 4 relative atomic mass 5 6 7 8 9 10
Li Be B C N O F Ne
6.9 9.0 10.8 12.0 14.0 16.0 19.0 20.2
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
23.0 24.3 27.0 28.1 31.0 32.1 35.5 40.0
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

20
K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
39.1 40.1 45.0 47.9 50.9 52.0 54.9 55.8 58.9 58.7 63.5 65.4 69.7 72.6 74.9 79.0 79.9 83.8
37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe
85.5 87.6 88.9 91.2 92.9 95.9 (98) 101.1 102.9 106.4 107.9 112.4 114.8 118.7 121.8 127.6 126.9 131.3
55 56 57 * 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
Cs Ba La Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
132.9 137.3 138.9 178.5 180.9 183.8 186.2 190.2 192.2 195.1 197.0 200.6 204.4 207.2 209.0 (209) (210) (222)
87 88 89 ** 104 105
Fr Ra Ac Rf Db
(223) (226) (227) (261) (262)

* 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71
Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu
140.1 140.9 144.2 (145) 150.4 152.0 157.3 158.9 162.5 164.9 167.3 168.9 173.0 175.0

** 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103

Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr
232.0 231.0 238.0 (237) (244) (243) (247) (247) (251) (252) (257) (258) (259) (262)

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