Answer-Past Paper Qs-Topic 5 and Topic 6

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Answer for IGCSE Chemistry Past paper Qs 1

TOPIC 5 Electricity and Chemistry Past paper Questions


1 (Nov. 2005, P6, Q2)
(a) Left: positive right: negative Both right [1]
(b) 1. Bubbles of (greenish) gas at the anode
2. bubbles of (colourless) gas at the cathode
OR bulb lights up any two [2]
(c) lighted splint
(squeaky) pops [2]

2 (June 2005, P6, Q2)

(a) anode on the left and cathode on the right [1]


(b) 1. Bubbles of (greenish) gas at the anode
2. bubbles of (colourless) gas at the cathode
3. bulb lights up / smell of bleach …[3]
(c) (i) chlorine [1]
(ii) damp blue litmus paper
Bleached [2]
(d) hydroxide ions [1]
(e) make soaps / paper [1]

3 (June 2004, P6, Q3)


(a) silvery metal / grey beads of metal / bulb lights up [1]
(b) (i) graphite / platinum [1]
(ii) the right electrode [2]
(c) bromine
anode [2]
(d) lead bromide / the product bromine is volatile and toxic / harmful / dangerous [1]

4 (June 2001, paper 3. Q2)


(b) (i) ions can move (freely) in molten state [1]
Ions cannot move in solid or only vibrate [1]

(ii) electrons move [1]


ions move [1]

(iii) hydrogen (at the cathode) [1]


chlorine (at the anode) [1]
lithium hydroxide (in the solution) [1]

5 (June, 2004, P3, Q5)


(b) (i) Cu2+(aq) + 2 e- Cu (s) ignore state symbol [1]

(ii) (At anode, OH ions lose electrons to form) oxygen gas [1]
2+
(copper ions are reduced to copper,) / concentration of Cu decreases
Answer
2 for IGCSE Chemistry Past paper Qs

OR (copper(II) sulphate) changes to sulphuric acid [1]


(c) (i) copper atoms copper ions + electrons [1]
(ii) Copper ions removed (at cathode) =copper ions reformed (at anode)
OR copper is transferred from anode to cathode [1]
Concentration of copper ions does not change. [1]
(iii) purifying copper / refining copper [1]

6. (June 2006, P3, Q6) 6 (a) alumina or


aluminium oxide (1) sodium aluminate (1)
iron(III) oxide (1) filtration (1)

(b) from left to right:


graphite cathode (-) or carbon cathode (1)
900 to 1000oC (1)
molten aluminium (1)
cryolite (1)

(c) (i) Al3+ + 3e- = Al Al3+(aq) = 0 [2]


not balanced [1]
(ii) oxygen formed [1]
reacts with carbon anode at high temperature. [1]

(d) (i) low density or resistant to corrosion [1]


(ii) not corroded
unreactive oxide layer
easily shaped or malleable or ductile
any TWO [2]
(iii) for strength or so it does not break [1]
NOT steel is a better conductor
[Total: 16]
TOPIC 6 Chemical Changes and Energy
1 (June 2006, P3, Q6)
6 (a)
(i) C-H bond or O=O bond
C=O bond or O-H bond [2]
(ii) the energy released when new bonds form is more than [1]
the energy taken in to break old bonds. [1]
235
(b) (i) U OR U-235 (1) for symbol, (1) for 235 [2]
(ii) treatment of cancer OR radiotherapy to treat tumour
OR measuring thickness (textbook p21) [1]

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