MOLE CONCEPT

1. The atomic wt. of two elements A and B are 20 & 40 resp. If X g of A contains Y atoms,
how many atoms are present in 2X g of B.

2. Calculate the total number of electrons present in 1.6g of CH4.

3. Calculate the total number of electrons present in 18 ml of water

4. Calculate the number of electrons, protons and neutrons in 1 mole of O2− ions

5. Mass of one atom of ‘X’ is 6.64210−23 g. What is its atomic mass?

6. Mass of one atom of an element A is 3.985410−23 g. How many atoms are contained in
1 g of the element of A?

7. From 200mg of CO2, 1021 molecules are removed. How many moles of CO2 are left?

8. Find the charge in coulomb on 1 g ion of N3−

9. Calculate the ratio of no. of oxygen atoms present in 3.2 mg of SO 2 to the no. of S atoms
present in 5 millimoles of Na2S2O3.5H2O

10. Calculate the total no. of oxygen and nitrogen atoms present in a mixture containing 8.2
gm of calcium 10 millimoles of sodium nitrate and NA/6 molecules of NO2.

11. How many year it would take to spend Avogadro number of rupees at the rate of 10 Lack
rupees per second?

12. One atom of an element X weighs 6.644 ×10−23 g. Calculate the number of gram atoms
in 40 kg of it.
13. A dot at the end of this sentence has a mass of about 1microgram.Assuming that the
black stuff is carbon; calculate the approximate number of atoms of carbon needed to
make such a dot.
14. How many iron atoms are present in a stainless steel ball−bearing having a radius 0.1
inch? The stainless steel contains 85.6% Fe by weight and has a density of 7.75g/cc.

15. A sample of potato starch was ground in a ball mill to give a starch like molecule of lower
molecular weight. The product analyzed 0.086% phosphorus. If each molecule is
assumed to contain one atom of phosphorus, what is the molecular weight of material?

16. Calculate volume of 3.4 g NH3 at STP.

17. Oxygen is present in a 1 litre flask at a pressure of 760 mm of Hg. Calculate the number
of oxygen molecules in the flask at 0°C.

18. 600 ml of a mixture of O3 and O2 weighs 1 g at NTP. Calculate the volume of ozone in
the mixture.

EMPERICAL AND MOLECULAR FORMULA

19. Potassium manganate is a dark green crystalline substance whose composition is 40.2%
K, 26.8% Mn and rest P. What is empirical formula?
20. A drug marijuana owes its activity to tetrahydrocannabinol, which contains 70% as many
carbon atoms as hydrogen atoms and 15 times as many hydrogen atoms as oxygen
atoms. The number of mole in a gram of tetrahydrocannabinol is 0.00318. Determine the
molecular formula.

21. A given sample of Xenon fluoride contains molecules of a single type XeFn where n is a
whole number. If 9.03×1020 molecules has a mass of 0.311 g then find the value of n.

22. A poisonous compound cadaverine has 58.77%C,13.81%H , and 27.42% N . Its molar
mass is 102g mol . Determine its molecular formula.

23. What is the empirical formula of a compound 0.2801 gm of which gave on complete
combustion 0.9482 gm of carbon dioxide and 0.1939 gm of water.

DENSITY AND VAPOUR DENSITY

24. An alloy has Fe, Co and Mo equal to 71%, 12% and 17% respectively. How many cobalt
atoms are there in a cylinder of radius 2.5 cm and a length of 10 cm? The density of alloy
is 8.20 g/mL. Atomic weight of cobalt =58.9.

25. The vapour density (hydrogen = 1) of a mixture consisting of NO2 and N2O4 is 38.3 at
26.7°C. Calculate the number of moles of NO2 in 100 g of the mixture.

26. An aqueous solution of ethanol has density 1.025 g/mL and it is 8.0 M. Determine
molality m of this solution.

PERCENTAGE COMPOSITION AND GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS

27. Determine the percentage composition of a mixture of anhydrous sodium carbonate and
sodium bicarbonate from the following data:
wt. of the mixture taken = 2g
Loss in weight on heating = 0.124 g.

28. LSD is a complex compound whose mass is made up of 74.27% carbon, 7.79%
hydrogen, 12.99% nitrogen and 4.95% oxygen. What percent of the atoms in LSD are
carbon atoms?

29. In a process for producing acetic acid, oxygen gas is bubbled into acetaldehyde,
CH3CHO, under pressure at 60°C in presence of suitable catalyst.
2CH3CHO(l) + O2(g) ⎯→ 2CH3COOH(l)
In a laboratory test of this reaction, 20 g CH3CHO and 10 g O2 were put into a reaction
vessel.
(A) How many gram of acetic acid can be produced by these amounts of reactants?
(B) How many gram of the excess reactant remain after the reaction is complete?
(C) If actual yield is 23.8 g, calculate percentage yield.
30. Reaction Yield of reaction
(i) 2A + B ⎯→ 3C + D 20%
(ii) 2C + E ⎯→ 4F 40%
(iii) 7H + 3F ⎯→ 8G 50%
where B, E and H given in excess
Starting with 10 moles of A. Moles of G formed are

31. A 5.0 g sample of a natural gas consisting of CH4 ,C2 H4 was burnt in excess of oxygen
yielding 14.5g CO2 and some H 2O as product. What is weight percentage of CH4 and
C2 H4 in mixture.

STOICHIOMETRY

32. 27.6 g of K2CO3 was treated by a series of reagents so as to convert all of its carbon to
K2Zn3[Fe(CN)6]2. Calculate the moles of the product.

33. Find the mass of Cu(NO3)2.3H2O produced by dissolving 10g of copper in nitric acid and
then evaporating the solution.

34. What weight of AgCl will be precipitated when solution containing 4.77 g of NaCl is
added to a solution of 5.77 g of AgNO3? (Na = 23, Cl = 35.5, Ag = 108, N = 14, O =16)

35. 1.84 g of a mixture of CaCO3 and MgCO3 was heated to a constant weight. The constant
weight of the residue was found to be 0.96g.Calculate % composition of the mixture.

36. Potassium chlorate (KClO4) is made in the following sequence of reactions:

Cl2 ( g ) + KOH ⎯ ⎯→ KCl + KClO + H 2 O
KClO ⎯
⎯→ KCl + KClO3
KClO3 ⎯
⎯→ KClO4 + KCl
What mass of Cl2 is needed to produce 1.385 kg of KClO4?

37. For the above set of reactions what will be amount of KCl produced when 142 g of Cl 2 is
taken

38. 1 gm sample of KClO3 was heated under such conditions that a part of it decomposed
according to the equation
i) 2KClO3 ⎯→ 2KCl + 3O2
ii) and the remaining underwent change according to the equation
4KClO3 → 3KClO4 + KCl
If the amount of O2 evolved was 146.8 ml at STP, calculate percentage by weight of
KClO4 in the residue.

39. Based on the following information, determine value of x and y:

⎯→ x CH 4 ( g ) + yCl − + Al 3+ ⎯⎯⎯3 → AgCl ( s)
(CH 3 ) x AlCl y ⎯
AgNO

0.643 g 0.222 g 0.996g

40. How much quantity of zinc will have to be reacted with excess of dilute HCl solution to
produce sufficient hydrogen gas for completely reacting with the oxygen obtained by
decomposing 6.125 g of KClO3?

41.
A + 2B ⎯→ 7C
(t=0) 4/3 moles 1 mol

(A) What is Limiting reagent?

(B) Which is in excess?
(C) Formed moles of C?

42. By the reaction of carbon and oxygen, a mixture of CO and CO2 is obtained. What is the
composition of the mixture obtained in moles when 20 grams of O2 reacts with 12 grams
of carbon ?

CONCENTRATION TERMS

43. What is the strength in g/litre of a solution of H2SO4, 12 cc of which neutralizes 15 cc of

M/10 NaOH?

44. 100 ml solution of KOH contains 10 milli−moles of KOH. Calculate its strength in molarity
and gram/litre.

45. Calculate the number of sulphate ions in 100 ml of 0.001 M H2SO4 solution.

46. What weight of CuSO4 .5H2O must be taken to make 0.5 lt. of 0.01 M Cu2+ ions.

47. To 50 ml of 0.5 M H2SO4, 75 ml of 0.25 M H2SO4 is added. What is the concentration of

the final solution?

48. 3 g of a salt of molecular weight 30 is dissolved in 250 g of water. Calculate the

molality of the solution.

49. Mole fraction of I2 in C6H6 is 0.2. Calculate molality of I2 in C6H6.

50. The density of a 10% by mass KCl solution in water is 1.06 g/ml. Calculate molarity of
KCl solution.
51. 105 ml of pure water (4°C) is saturated with NH3 gas producing a solution of density 0.9
g/ml. If this solution contains 30% of NH3 by wt. Calculate the volume of the solution.

52. An aqueous solution of ethanol has density 1.025 g/mL and it is 8.0 M. Determine
molality of this solution.

MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS
53. If 5 moles each of SO2 and O 2 at STP reacts and form SO3 then calculate number of
moles of SO3 gas produced at STP,
2SO2 + O2 ⎯⎯
→ 2SO3

54. Calculate the no. of moles of Fe2O3 produced at STP when 600gm of FeS2 reacts with
800 gm of O 2 .
4FeS2 + 11O2 ⎯⎯
→ 2Fe2O3 + 8SO2

55. Calculate the weight of NH 3 required to neutralize 146 gm of HCl

NH3 + HCl ⎯⎯
→ NH4Cl

56. 6.00 gm of H 2 reacts with 29.00 gm of O 2 to yield H 2O

(i) which is limiting reagent
(ii) Calculate the maximum amount of H 2O that can be formed
(iii) Calculate the amount of reactants which remains unreacted
2H 2 + O2 ⎯⎯
→ 2H 2O

57. What mass of NaCl would contain the same total number of ions as 245 g of MgCl2 ?

58. A mixture of pure AgCl and pure AgBr is found to contain 60.94% Ag by mass. What
are mass percentages of Cl and Br in the mixture ( Ag = 108, Cl = 35.5, Br = 80)
59. How much gas ( in litres) will be produced at 0 C and 760 mm of pressure when 10 g of
oxalic acid (H2C2O4) was heated with concentrated sulphuric acid?

60. 0.607 g of a silver salt (Ag3X type) of a tribasic organic acid (H3X type) was quantitatively
reduced to 0.370 g of pure silver. Calculate the molecular weight of the acid.
( Ag = 108) .

Answer Key:

1. [Y atoms] 2.[6.022 1023] 3.[10 × 6.022 ×1023]

4. 10  6.022  1023, 8  6.022  1023, 86.022  1023 5. 40

6. 2.50921022 atom 7. 0.00288 8. [2.894  105 C] 9.

[0.01]
 10. [0.363N, 0.176N] 11.[1.90991010 year] 12.[1000] 13. [5
1016]

14. [4.911021] 15. [3.6104 g] 16. [4.48 L] 17.

[2.691022]

18. [200 ml] 19. [K2 MnP2] 20. [C21H30O2] 21.

[n=4]

22. ( C5 H14 N2 ) 23. ( CH ) 24. [19.81023] 25.

[0.437]

26. 12.18 27. %NaHCO3 = 16.8, % Na2CO3= 83.2

28. 40.8% 29. [27.3 g, 2.736 g O2, 87.2%] 30. 3.2

(
31. CCH 4 = 60%
2 4 = 40%
H ) 32. [0.0166] 33. [38 g] 34.

[4.87 g]

21
35.[%CaCO3=54.34%] 36. 2840 gm 37.. moles 38.
6
49.8 %

39. x = 2 y = 1 40. 9.795 gm

41. (A) – B, (B) - [A: left moles = (4/3−1/2)], (C) - [7/2] 42. CO : CO2 = 3 : 1

43. [6.125g/lt.] 44. [0.1, 5.6] 45. [6.0221019] 46.

[1.2475]

47. [0.35 M] 48. [0.4 m] 49. [3.205] 50.

[1.4228]

51. [166.67 ml] 52. 12.18 53. ( 5 mole) 54.

(2.5 mole)

55. 68g 56. A – (O2), B – (32.625), C – (1.18)moles 57.

( 226 g )
58. Cl = 4.85% , Br = 34.19% 59. 4.97 Lt 60.
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