Chemical and Metal Reactions SAT Questions 3-6

1. (a) The table below shows the melting points of four metals.

metal melting point,

in °C

gold 1064

mercury –37

sodium 98

iron 1540

(i) Which metal in the table has the highest melting point?

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(ii) Which metal in the table has the lowest melting point?

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(b) Gold can be a gas or a liquid or a solid.

Choose from these words to fill the gaps below.

When gold is heated from room temperature to 1070°C, the gold

changes from a ................................. to a ................................... .

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(c) 5 g of gold is melted and all of it is poured into a mould to make a pendant as
shown below.

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 What is the mass of the gold pendant?

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(d) The table below shows how the four metals react with oxygen when heated in air.

metal reaction when

heated in air

gold no change

mercury slowly forms a

red powder

sodium bursts into flames

straight away

iron very slowly turns

black

(i) Which is the most reactive metal in the table?

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(ii) Which is the least reactive metal in the table?

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2. The drawing shows a gold mask from a tomb in Egypt. The gold is still shiny after
thousands of years.

(a) What is pure gold? Tick the correct box.

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 a compound a mixture

an element a solution
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(b) The list shows some of the properties of gold.

It conducts electricity. It melts at 1064°C. It is yellow.

It is easily scratched. It stays shiny. It conducts heat.

(i) Which one of these properties shows that gold does not react with oxygen
in the air?

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(ii) Which two of the properties above are properties of all metals?

1. .........................................................................................................

2. .........................................................................................................
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(c) Old iron objects from tombs in Britain are often covered with rust.
Iron reacts with oxygen when it rusts.

What else is needed for iron to go rusty? Choose one substance from the list
below.

lead nitrogen carbon dioxide water

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(d) A box contains a collection of metal objects from a tomb.

What piece of equipment would you use to separate the iron objects from the
other metal objects?

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3. Marie mixed 5 g of carbon with 5 g of lead oxide.
She heated the mixture strongly for 15 minutes in a fume cupboard.

m ix tu r e o f c a r b o n
a n d le a d o x id e

After 15 minutes, Marie found some shiny beads in the mixture.

(a) (i) Marie collected all the shiny beads from this experiment.
How could she test them to show they were metal?

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(ii) Marie’s test showed that the tiny beads were metal.
What metal were the beads likely to be?

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(b) Marie also expected carbon dioxide to be formed in this experiment.

(i) In carbon dioxide, what element is combined with carbon?

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(ii) Where, apart from the air, did this element come from in this experiment?

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 (c) Give one safety precaution Marie should take during this experiment.

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4. (a) George used the apparatus below to find out what substances are produced
when methanol burns.

As the methanol burned, two different gases were produced.

(i) One of these gases condensed in the U-tube to give a colourless liquid.
Give the name of this liquid.

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(ii) The other gas turned the lime water cloudy.

Give the name of this gas.

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 (b) Methanol is sometimes used in antifreeze. It can be added to water in car
windscreen wash-bottles to prevent the water from freezing in cold conditions.

(i) The label on the bottle of antifreeze has two hazard warning symbols. What
two precautions would you need to take when using this antifreeze?

1. .........................................................................................................

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2. .........................................................................................................

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(ii) Water freezes at 0°C. The label on the bottle shows how the freezing point
changes when different amounts of antifreeze are added to water.

Terry put a mixture containing 10% antifreeze into the wash-bottle of his car.
During the night the temperature dropped to –14°C.
The wash-bottle burst.
Explain why the wash-bottle burst.

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5. Shuli investigated differences between physical and chemical changes.

She put three chemicals in separate crucibles and weighed each one.
She heated each crucible as shown below.
She weighed each crucible again when it had cooled down.

She recorded her observations in a table as shown below.

experiment name of chemical observations change in

mass

A magnesium The silvery magnesium increase

(a silvery solid) burned brightly in air.
A white powder was
formed.

B potassium The purple crystals decrease

permanganate crackled and turned black.
(purple crystals) A colourless gas was
given off.

C zinc oxide The white powder turned no change

(a white powder) pale yellow on heating.
It turned white again on
cooling.

(a) (i) In experiment A, magnesium reacts with a gas in the air.

Complete the word equation for the reaction in experiment A.

magnesium + ..................................... ® ...................................................

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 (ii) Explain the increase in mass in experiment A. Use your word equation to
help you.

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(b) The gas given off in experiment B re-lit a glowing splint.

Give the name of this gas.

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(c) Name the white powder left at the end of experiment C.

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(d) In each experiment, did a chemical change or a physical change take place?
Tick one box for each experiment.

experiment chemical change physical change

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