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C12.1 - C12.6 - Chemical Analysis✔️ Flashcards

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What is a pure substance?

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A substance that is made up of just one substance - that substance can either be an element or compound

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What are an elements fixed points?

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The melting and boiling points of an element or a compound are called its fixed point

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How can fixed points be used to identify pure elements and compounds?

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Pure elements and compounds melt and boil at specific temperatures and these fixed points can be used to identify them - meltinga point and boiling point data can be used to distinquish pure substances

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What are fomulations?

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formulations are useful mixtures made up in definite proportions,designed to give a product the best properties possible to carry out its function

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Why is chromatography used?

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Used to seperate mixtures and give information to help identify substances - involves a stationary phase and a mobile phase - seperation depends on the distribution of susbstances between the phases

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What are Rբ values?

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Retention factor value which can be measured and matched against databases to identify substances

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Equation for Rբ?

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Rբ = distance moved by a substance / distance moved by solvent

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What will happen to the compounds in a mixture when they seperate?

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Compounds will seperate into different spots depending on the solvent - but pure compounds will produce a single spot in all solvents

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What is the test for hydrogen?

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Use a burning splint held at the open end of a test tube of the gas - hydrogen burns rapidly with a pop sound

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What is the test for oxygen?

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Uses a glowing splint inserted into a test tube of the gas - splint relights in oxygen

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What is the test for chemical dioxide?

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Uses an aqueous solution or calcium hydroxide (lime water) when carbon dioxide is shaken with or bubbled through limewater the limewater turns milky (cloudy)

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What is the test for chlorine?

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Uses litmus paper - which when damp blue litmus paper is put into chlorine the litmus paper is bleached and turns white

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Colour for the lithium ion(Li+) in a flame test?

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Crimson

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Colour for sodium ion (Na+) in a flame test?

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Yellow

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Colour for potassium ion (K+) in a flame test?

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Lilac

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Colour for clacium ion (Ca2+) in a flame test?

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Orange- red

17
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Colour for copper ion (Cu2+) in a flame test?

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Green

18
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Explain how a flame test is set up?

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  • nichrom wire loop dipped in concentrated hydrochloric aicd and heated (to clean it)
  • dipped in acid again before being dipped into metal compound being tested
  • hold loap in roaring flame of bunsern burner
  • use colour of flame to identify metal ion in the compound
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Why is sodium hydroxide solution used?

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Can be used to identify metal ions that form insoluble hydroxides in precipitation reactions

20
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What ions form white precipitates when tested with sodium hydroxide solution?

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  • aluminium ions
  • calcium ions
  • magensium ions
21
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What happens if you add more sodium hydroxide to aluminium ions,calcium ions and magensium ions?

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The precipitate formed with aluminium ions dissolves however the white precipitate formed with calcium or magnesium ions will not dissolve (so calcium and magnesium can be distinguished by a flame test)

22
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What colour precipitates forms with copper(II) ions?

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Blue precipitate

23
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What colour precipitates forms with iron(II) ions?

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Green precipitate is produced

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What colour precipitates forms with iron(III) ions?

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Brown precipitate is formed

25
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How can you test a substance for being a carbonate?

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Add dilute acid to a carbonate - it fizzes and produces carbon dioxide gas - the gas turns limewater milky (cloudy)

26
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What happens with carbon dioxide gas in limewater - explain why this happens?

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Carbon dioxide reacts with the alkaline, calcium hydroxide - it forms a white precipitate of calcium carbonate which turns the limewater milky (cloudy)

27
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How can you identify halides?

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By adding dilute nitric acid and then silver nitrate solution which produces a precipitate of silver halide

28
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Which colour will the precipitates be when identifying halides?

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  • Chloride - white
  • bromide - cream
  • iodide - yellow
29
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How can you test for sulfates?

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By adding hydrochloric acid (to remove carbonate ions that would form)and then barium chloride solution which produces a white precipitate of barium sulfate (which tells you sulfate ions are present)

30
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Benefits of modern instrumental methods over older?

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  • they are highly accurate and sensitive
  • they are quicker
  • they enable small samples ro be analysed
31
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Disadvantages of using instrumental methods are that the equipment …?

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  • is usually expensive
  • takes special training to use
  • gives results that can often be interptreted only by comparison with data from known substances
32
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What is flame emission spectroscopy?

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An exmaple of an instrumental method which will tell us which metal ions are present from their characteristics line spectra and also the concentration of metal ions in a solution

33
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How are fomulations made?

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Made by mixing the components in carefully measured quantities to ensure that the product has the required properties - examples formulations are fuels,medicines and foods

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How can Rբ values be used to identify compounds?

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Different compounds have different Rբ values in different solvents, which can be used to help identify the compounds

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How can chromatography be used to seperate mixtures of substances dissolved in a solvent?

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Mixture of substances dissolved in a solvent move up a piece of chromatography paper - the different substances are seperated because of their different solubilities in the solvent used

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