Which apparatus measures exactly 25.0 cm3 of acid most accurately?
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Which burette reading is recorded correctly?
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Which cation gives a white precipitate with both aqueous sodium hydroxide and aqueous ammonia, soluble in excess of both?
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A student adds dilute hydrochloric acid to a solution, then aqueous silver nitrate, and sees a white precipitate. Why does this not prove that the solution contained chloride ions?
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Repeated titres agree closely but are all larger than the true value. Which change would make them more accurate?
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Which apparatus is most suitable to measure 27.8 cm3 of a solution?
Source: 2024 BLSS O Prelim P1 Q3
A student measures the time taken for 1.0 g of magnesium to dissolve in 25.0 cm3 of dilute hydrochloric acid. A stopwatch and electronic balance are provided in the set-up.
What additional apparatus is essential to complete the experiment?
1 measuring cylinder
2 pipette
3 gas syringe
Source: 2024 Bukit View O Prelim P1 Q1
A student carried out an experiment involving the reaction between calcium carbonate and dilute hydrochloric acid. Based on the experimental results, a graph of volume of gas produced against time was plotted. Which apparatus were used by the student to make the necessary measurements?
Source: 2024 SMSS O Sec3 P1 Q1
Two methods of gas collection are upward delivery and displacement of water. Which row correctly shows whether each of these methods could be used to collect the gas?
Source: 2025 Compassvale O Prelim P1 Q1
Which row shows the correct drying agent and the corresponding gas that can be collected by upward delivery into a gas jar? Each option gives the drying agent, then the gas collected.
Source: 2024 Woodlands O Prelim P1 Q1
Aqueous sodium hydroxide is neutralised by dilute hydrochloric acid in a titration. 25.0 cm3 of aqueous sodium hydroxide is measured into a conical flask using a …1… and a few drops of methyl orange are added. The dilute hydrochloric acid is added using a …2…. The end-point is reached when the methyl orange turns …3…. Which words complete blanks 1, 2 and 3?
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | burette | pipette | red |
| B | burette | pipette | orange |
| C | pipette | burette | orange |
| D | pipette | burette | red |
2024 Zhenghua O Prelim P1-P3 Q1
When testing for chloride ions with silver nitrate, the solution must be acidified with dilute nitric acid. What is the purpose of the nitric acid?
2024 BLSS O Prelim P1 Q21
Bpipette[1]
A pipette delivers one accurate fixed volume, such as 25.0 cm3.
A measuring cylinder reads only to the nearest 0.5 cm3, a beaker is not for measuring and a gas syringe measures gases.
C23.45 cm3[1]
A burette reads to the nearest 0.05 cm3, so a reading has two decimal places.
The others give too few or too many decimal places.
CZn2+[1]
Zinc hydroxide dissolves in excess sodium hydroxide and in excess ammonia.
Aluminium hydroxide does not dissolve in excess ammonia, calcium gives no precipitate with ammonia, and magnesium hydroxide dissolves in neither.
BThe hydrochloric acid added chloride ions.[1]
Hydrochloric acid supplies Cl−, so a white precipitate would form anyway.
The solution should be acidified with dilute nitric acid instead.
BRead the burette at eye level.[1]
The error is the same every time, so repeating or averaging does not remove it.
Reading with the eye level with the meniscus removes a parallax error, which improves accuracy.
It is more accurate (to 0.05 cm3 against 0.5 cm3), and it measures a range of volumes.[1]
It measures only one fixed volume.[1]
Water displacement, because it is insoluble, or upward delivery, because it is less dense than air.[1]
Quicklime (calcium oxide). Concentrated sulfuric acid would react with it.[1]
To mix the titrant in, so the colour changes exactly when enough has been added.[1]
24.65 − 1.20 = 23.45 cm3[1]
Add aqueous sodium hydroxide to excess: a white precipitate insoluble in excess shows calcium.
If it dissolves, add aqueous ammonia to excess: insoluble shows aluminium, soluble shows zinc.[2]
Dark blue. Copper(II) ions.[1]
Add dilute nitric acid, then aqueous barium nitrate: a white precipitate shows sulfate.[1]
Add dilute nitric acid, then aqueous silver nitrate: a white precipitate shows chloride, a yellow one iodide.[1]
Add dilute acid: a sulfite gives sulfur dioxide, which turns acidified potassium manganate(VII) from purple to colourless. A sulfate gives no gas.[1]
Hydrogen, oxygen or carbon dioxide.
Hydrogen puts out a burning splint with a pop, oxygen relights a glowing splint, carbon dioxide turns limewater milky.[2]
Ammonia turns damp red litmus blue. Chlorine turns damp blue litmus red, then bleaches it.
Hydrogen puts out a burning splint with a pop.[2]
The cylinder: 0.5 ÷ 20.0 × 100% = 2.5%, against 0.5% for the balance.[1]
Precise but not accurate: close together, but all about 0.2 g too high.[1]
Aburette[1]
A burette can deliver any volume up to its full scale accurately, so it can measure out 27.8 cm3.
A pipette delivers one fixed volume only, such as 25.0 cm3. A beaker is not used for measuring, and a measuring cylinder is less accurate than a burette.
B2 only[1]
The volume of acid, 25.0 cm3, is given to three significant figures, so it is measured with a pipette.
The experiment times how long the magnesium takes to dissolve, so the gas is not collected and a gas syringe is not needed. A measuring cylinder is not accurate enough for 25.0 cm3.
Cgas syringe and stopwatch[1]
The volume of a gas is measured with a gas syringe and time is measured with a stopwatch.
A burette and a pipette measure liquid volumes. An electronic balance measures mass, which a graph of gas volume against time does not need.
Bless dense than air, soluble: upward delivery yes, displacement of water no[1]
Upward delivery collects a gas that is less dense than air. Displacement of water collects a gas that is insoluble or only slightly soluble in water.
Row A is wrong because a gas denser than air cannot be collected by upward delivery, and a soluble gas cannot be collected over water. Row C is wrong for the same first reason. Row D is wrong because a gas less dense than air can be collected by upward delivery.
Banhydrous calcium oxide, ammonia[1]
Upward delivery collects a gas that is less dense than air. Of the four gases, only ammonia is less dense than air. Sulfur dioxide and chlorine are denser than air, so they are collected by downward delivery.
Calcium oxide dries ammonia. It cannot be used with carbon dioxide, which reacts with it.
Crow C[1]
The fixed 25.0 cm3 is measured with a pipette, and the acid is run in from a burette.
Methyl orange is yellow in the alkali and changes to orange at the end-point, as it starts to change towards red.
Cto prevent precipitation of silver carbonate[1]
Dilute nitric acid removes carbonate ions, which would otherwise give a precipitate with silver ions too.
It is not a catalyst and does not oxidise chloride ions.