The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys’ School

Elstree, Herts

13+ Entrance Examination 2016

CHEMISTRY
Please follow these instructions
• The Science paper is divided into three sections (Biology, Chemistry and Physics).
The time for the Science paper is 1 hour. You should spend no more than 20
minutes on each section.

• Answer the questions in the spaces provided. Long answers are not expected.

• You may use your calculator in any of the numerical questions.

• Rough work should be done on the paper but do not write in the margins.

• Write your name and school in the box below.

Name

School

Exam number

For the examiner’s use only

Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total

Max
6 4 6 9 8 33 6
Mark
Q1. Some pupils carried out an investigation to find out whether more sugar or more
salt dissolved in water at 60°C

Here are some of the steps in their investigation. They are not in correct order.

(a) Put the letters A, B, C, D and E in the boxes below to show the correct order of
the steps in their investigation.

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

1 mark

(b) Why did they use a measuring cylinder?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

1 mark

(c) They used water at 60°C in both beakers.

What else did they do to make their investigation fair?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

1 mark

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(d) They counted the number of spatulas of sugar or salt added to the water until no
more would dissolve.

(i) Why was this not an accurate method of measuring how much sugar or salt
they added?

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

……..................................................................................

1 mark

(ii) Suggest a more accurate method of measuring how much sugar or salt they
added.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

……..................................................................................

1 Mark

(e) What name do we give to the mixture present when we have added more solid
than will dissolve so that some solid is left floating in the liquid?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

1 mark
Maximum 6 marks

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Q2. The list below shows properties that different elements can have.

• magnetic
• can be compressed
• very high melting point
• very low melting point
• good conductor of heat
• poor conductor of heat
• good conductor of electricity
• poor conductor of electricity

(a) Which two properties from the list above make aluminium suitable for saucepans?

1. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. ……………………………......................................................
2 marks
(b) Which property in the list above explains why:

(i) copper is used in the cable of a television?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
1 mark
(ii) a lot of oxygen gas can be pumped into a very small container?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
1 mark
maximum 4 marks

Q3. (a) Sunil picked yellow, red and purple primula flowers from his garden.

He dipped the different flower petals into water and into two different solutions.
The pH of one solution was 1 and the pH of the other was 10.
This table shows the results.

colour of in solutions of in solution of

in water pH 7
flower petals pH 1 pH 10
yellow stayed yellow stayed yellow stayed yellow
red stayed red stayed red turned green
purple turned pink stayed purple turned blue

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 Which colour of flower petal would be most useful to make an indicator for both
acids and alkalis?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………............................................................
.................................……………………...............................
.............................................................. 2 marks

Sunil crushed petals from each flower separately in some liquid and poured off the
coloured solutions. Then he put drops of each coloured solution into the middle of
different pieces of filter paper.

The solutions spread out on the filter paper. The diagrams show his results.

(b) What is the name of this method of investigating coloured substances?

……………………………………………………………………………………………… 1 mark

c) Sunil made notes on his experiment. Some words are missing.

Complete the sentences.

When I crushed a flower in a liquid it produced a coloured solution.

This is because a coloured substance had ......................……….. in

the liquid. This shows that the liquid is

.............................................. for these coloured substances.

My experiment shows that one of the flowers probably contained two

coloured substances. This was the ......................……….. flower.

3 marks
maximum 6 marks

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Q4. (a) The apparatus in the diagram below is used to obtain pure water from
impure water.

(i) What temperature would the thermometer show?

……………………….°C
1 mark
(ii) What is the function of the piece of apparatus labelled R?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………….......................................................................
1 mark

(iii) Give the name of the process which purifies water in this way.

……………………….
1 mark

(b) Look back to the apparatus in part (a).

Give the letter, A, B, C or D, from the diagram above, for the change of
state which occurs:

in the round-bottomed flask

…………………………………………………………………………………….
in the piece of apparatus labelled R
………………………………………………………………………….
2 marks

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(b) The diagram below shows particles in a gas, a solid and a liquid.
Each arrow, A, B, C and D, represents a change of state.

(i) Choose from the following words to complete the sentences below.

boiling condensing distilling evaporating

filtering freezing melting

Change of state A is called

………………………………………………………………………………………

Change of state B is called

………………………………………………………………………………………

Change of state C is called

………………………………………………………………………………………

Change of state D is called

………………………………………………………………………………………

4 marks

maximum 9 marks

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Q5. Solder is a mixture of lead and tin.
The melting point of solder depends on the amount of tin in the mixture.

(a) Look at the table below.

amount of tin in solder (%) melting point of solder (°C)

0 327
30 255
40 235
50 212
60 188
70 192
80 205
90 220
100 232

(i) The melting point of pure tin is 232°C.

What is the melting point of pure lead?

……………………….°C
1 mark

(ii) Use the data in the table to plot the points on the grid below.
Four of the points are plotted for you.

Draw an appropriate line of best fit.

3 marks

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(b) Use your graph to estimate the amount of tin needed to make solder with the
lowest melting point.

……………………….%
1 mark

(c) Describe how the melting point of solder changes with the amount of tin in the
solder.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………….........................................................
....................................……………………...........................
.............................................................. 2 marks

(d) The diagrams below show the arrangement of atoms in solid samples of pure lead
and pure tin.

Which box shows the correct arrangement of the lead atoms and tin atoms at
room temperature in a sample of solder that has a melting point of 212°C?
Use the table above.
Tick the correct box.

1 mark
maximum 8 marks