EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Calcium oxide reacts with hydrochloric acid according to the equation:

CaO+2HClCaCl2+H2O.

Ar values: H=1.0; O=16.0; Cl=35.5; Ca=40.1

Calculate the mass of water produced when 28.05 g calcium oxide reacts with excess of hydrochloric acid.

Important Questions on Atoms, Molecules and Stoichiometry

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

Look at the mass spectrum of ethanol, C2H5OH. A structural isomer of ethanol is methoxy methane, an ether with the formula CH3OCH3.

Predict the mass-to-charge ratio of a fragment that would appear on the mass spectrum of methoxy methane but does not appear on methanol's mass spectrum.

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

Look at the mass spectrum of ethanol, C2H5OH. A structural isomer of ethanol is methoxy methane, an ether with the formula CH3OCH3.

Predict and give the name of the fragment that would appear on the mass spectrum of methoxy methane but does not appear on methanol's mass spectrum.

Question ImageQuestion Image

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

Look at the mass spectrum of ethanoic acid.

Identify the fragment with mass-to-charge ratio of 15.

Question Image

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

A hydrocarbon has molecular ion peak at mass-to-charge ratio of 84 (relative abundance 62%) and an M+1 peak with a relative abundance of 4.1%.

How many carbon atoms are in the hydrocarbon?

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
List the ions responsible for the MM+2 and M+4 peaks in the mass spectrum of dibromomethane.
EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
What would be the mass-to-charge ratio and relative abundances of the major peaks with the highest charge-to mass ratios in the mass spectrum of chloroethane?
EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

When ammonia gas and hydrogen chloride gas mix together, they react to form a solid called ammonium chloride.

Ar values: H=1.0; N=14.0; Cl=35.5

Calculate the molar masses of ammonia, hydrogen chloride and ammonium chloride.

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

When ammonia gas and hydrogen chloride gas mix together, they react to form a solid called ammonium chloride.

Ar values: H=1.0; N=14.0; Cl=35.5

Calculate the volumes of ammonia and hydrogen chloride gases that must react at r.t.p in order to produce 10.7 g of ammonium chloride?

(1 mol of gas occupies 24 dm3 at r.t.p.).