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Ch 17 - (Chemistry of our environment) Flashcards

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1
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What is used to test for water?

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  • Cobalt (II) chloride
  • Copper (II) sulfate
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How is the test for cobalt chloride done?

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using cobalt chloride paper

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what is the word equation for cobalt (II) chloride?

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Anhydrous cobalt (II) chloride + water –> <– hydrated cobalt (II) chloride

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what is the symbol equation for cobalt (II) chloride?

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CoCl2 (s) + 6H2O (l) –> <– CoCl2.6H2O (s)

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what is the word equation for copper (II) sulfate?

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Anhydrous copper (II) sulfate + water –> <– hydrated copper (II) sulfate

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what is the symbol equation for copper (II) sulfate?

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CuSO4 (s) + 6H2O (l) –> <– CuSO4.5H2O (s)

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What is the positive test for water in copper sulfate and cobalt chlroide?

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cobalt (II) chlroide: Blue to pink

Copper (II) sulfate: White to blue

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What can be used to test for the purity of a substance?

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Melting point and boiling point

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what is distilled water?

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Water that has been heated to form a vapour and has been condensed back to a liquid

Contains less impurities

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Why is distilled water used in practical impurities

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High purity

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What do we use water for?

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  1. Domestic uses - drinking, cooking, gardening
  2. Agriculture use - Frink for animals and crops
  3. Industrial use - Solvent, coolant
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Where is water found?

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Natural sources as lakes, tigers and underground water sources

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13
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What is a rock that stores water called?

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Aquifer

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what does water from natural sources come from?

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  • dissolved oxygen
  • metal compounds
  • plastics
  • sewage
  • harmful microbes
  • nitrates from fertilizers
  • phosphates from fertilizers and detergents
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What are examples of beneficial substances in water?

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  1. Dissolved oxygen - essential for aquatic life
  2. Metal compounds - essential minerals for life, magnesium and calcium
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What are examples of harmful substances in water?

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  1. Metal compounds - toxic, aluminum and lead
  2. Plastic - harmful to aquatic life
  3. Sewage - harmful microbes
  4. Nitrate & phosphate fertilizers - promotes growth which leads to deoxygenation of water.
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What does unreacted water contain?

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Soluble and insoluble impurities

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What do soluble and insoluble impurities include?

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Insoluble - soil, pieces of plants, organic matter

Soluble - dissolved calcium, metallic compounds, inorganic pollutants

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What is the water treatment process?

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  1. Water is pumped into sedimentation tanks where water is allowed to stand for a few hours
  2. Mud sand particles fall to bottom of tank due to gravity, called sedimentation
  3. Filtration - removes smaller particles by passing water through layers of sand and gravely trapped in filter
  4. Water is passed through carbon (as charcoal) to remove taste and odours
  5. Bacteria & microorganism removed by chlorination where chlorine is added to water
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what’s the examples of bacterial diseases caused by untreated water?

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Cholera and typhoid

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21
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What elements do fertilizers contain?

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nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous (NPK)

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What is the use of NPK in fertilisers?

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  1. Nitrogen - makes chlorophyll and protein
  2. Potassium - promotes growth & healthy fruit and flowers
  3. Phosphorous - healthy roots
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What are the fertilizer compounds that contain water soluble ions?

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  • Ammonium ions (NH4+) & nitrate ions (NO3-)
  • phosphate ions (PO43-)
  • potassium ions (K+)
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What do common fertilizers compound include?

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Ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3)
Ammonium phosphate (NH4)3PO4
Potassium sulfate (K2SO4)

25
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What is the composition of gasses in air in unpolluted air?

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Oxygen - 21%
Nitrogen - 78 %
Argon - 0.9 %
CO2 - 0.04 %

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What are the uses of the gases?

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  • argon is used in light bulbs
  • oxygen is used in steel making, welding, and breathing apparatus
  • nitrogen is used in food packaging
27
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How are oxygen and nitrogen seperated?

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Fractional distillation

28
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How can the percentage of oxygen in air tested?

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Investigated by passing a known quantity of air over a metal.

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What happens to the oxygen blown over a metal?

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  • oxygen in air reacts with metal forming metal oxide.
  • oxygen can be removed from air, volume of air with oxygen can be removed.
30
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What gases are produced due to air pollution?

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  1. Carbon dioxide
  2. Carbon monoxide
  3. Methane
  4. Sulfur dioxide
  5. Particulates
  6. Oxides of nitrogen
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What are the sources and adverse effects of carbon dioxide?

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Sources: Complete combustion of carbon containing fuels such as fossil fuels

Adverse effects: Increases global warming, which leads to climate change

Complete combustion (Methane): CH4+ 2O2 —> CO2 + 2H2O

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What are the sources and adverse effects of carbon monoxide?

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Sources: Incomplete combustion of carbon - containing fuels such as fossil fuels

Incomplete combustion of gasoline:
C8H18 + 9O2 —> 5CO2 + 2CO2 + 9H2O

Adverse effect: Toxic, combining with hemoglobin prevents from carrying oxygen

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What are the sources and adverse effects of Particulates?

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Sources: Incomplete combustion of carbon containing fuels, fossil fuels produce particulates of carbon (soot), e.g the incomplete combustion of methane can produce CO and C:

2CH4 + 3O2→ 2CO + 4H2O

CH4 + O2→ C + 2H2O

Adverse effects: respiratory problems and cancer

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What are the sources and adverse effects of methane?

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Sources: waste gases from digestive processes of animals, decomposition of vegetation, bacterial action in swamps, rice paddy fields and landfill sites

Adverse effects: increases global warming, which leads to climate change

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What are the sources and adverse effects of oxides of nitrogen ?

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Sources: reaction of nitrogen with oxygen in the presence of high temperatures, e.g. in car engines

  • high-temperature furnaces and when lightning occurs. It is also a product of bacterial action in the soil

Adverse effects:
- Produces photochemical smog

  • Dissolves in rain to form acid rain which causes corrosion to metal structures, buildings and statues made of carbonate rocks, damage to aquatic organisms.
  • Pollutes crops and water supplies, irritates lungs, throats and eyes and causes respiratory problems
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What are the sources and adverse effects of sulfur dioxide ?

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Sources: combustion of fossil fuels containing sulfur compounds. Power stations are a major source of sulfur dioxide

Adverse effects: dissolves in rain to form acid rain with similar effects as the acid rain caused by oxides of nitrogen

37
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How is greenhouse effect caused by the thermal energy from sun?

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  • Sun emits energy in the form of radiation that enters the Earth’s atmosphere
  • Some thermal energy is reflected from the Earth’s surface
  • Most thermal energy is absorbed and re-emitted back from the Earth’s surface
  • The energy passes through the atmosphere where some thermal energy passes straight through and is emitted into space
  • But some thermal energy is absorbed by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane and is re-emitted in all directions
  • This reduces the thermal energy lost into space and traps it within the Earth’s atmosphere, keeping the Earth warm
38
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What happens when concentration of greenhouse gases increases?

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  • more thermal energy is trapped within the Earth’s atmosphere causing the Earth’s average temperature to rise.
  • Called enhanced greenhosue effect
39
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What are the consequences of global warming?

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  • increase in Earth’s temperature
  • water levels will rise as glaciers melt because of high temperatures, causing flooding
  • Extinction of species
  • migration of species
  • spread of diseases
  • loss of habitat
40
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Why does production of greenhouse gases needs to be reduced drastically?

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avoid or at least slow climate change

41
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How can CO2 emissions be reduced?

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using hydrogen and renewable energy supplies such as solar or wind energy instead of burning fossil fuels

42
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How can we decrease the methane emission?

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Reducing the amount of livestock farming

43
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How do we remove more carbon dioxide from atmosphere?

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Planting more trees

44
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How is acid rain caused?

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Oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide

45
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What are the effects of acid rain?

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Reduced by decreasing the amount of oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide

46
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What can be used to remove oxides of nitrogen?

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Catalytic converter

47
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How can the emission of sulfur dioxide be reduced?

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  • using fuels which contain low levels of sulfur
  • Flue gas desulfurization - involves reacting sulfur dioxide emitted from burning fuels containing sulfur with calcium oxide removing it from flue gas.
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How are oxides of nitrogen formed?

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  • NO and NO2
  • High pressure
  • temperature
  • maintain conditions of internal combustion engines
49
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What do exhaust gases contain?

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  • Unburned hydrocarbon
  • carbon monoxide
50
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What do catalytic converts contain?

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Series of transition metal catalysts including platinum and rhodium

51
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How are metal catalysts?

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Honeycomb within converter to increase SA

52
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what is the chemical equation when carbon monoxide is oxidised to carbon dioxide?

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2CO + O2 –> 2CO2

53
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what are the chemical equations when oxides of nitrogen are reduced to N2?

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2NO –> N2 + O2
2NO2 –> N2 + 2O2

54
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What is the chemical reaction of nitrogen monoxide and carbon monoxide with a catalytic converter?

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2NO + 2CO –> N2 + 2CO2

55
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What is the chemical equation of unburned hydrocarbons that are oxidised to carbon dioxide and water?

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C8H18 + 12 1/2 O2 –> 8CO2 + 9H2O

56
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What is photosynthesis?

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Endothermic reaction in which energy is transferred from the environment to the chloroplasts in green plants to make glucose.

57
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What are the reactants and products for the process of photosynthesis?

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reactants: Carbon dioxide & water
Products: Glucose and oxygen

58
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What is the word equation of photosynthesis?

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Carbon dioxide + water –(chlorophyll & light)–> glucose + oxygen

59
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What is the symbol equation of photosynthesis?

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6CO2 + 6H2O –> C6H12O6 + 6O2

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