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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9045 on: February 21, 2021, 05:23:04 pm »
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What is the electrolyte in a galvanic cell? Is it just the inert solution in the salt bridge? Or the solvent and/or spectator ions?
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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9046 on: February 21, 2021, 05:47:21 pm »
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What is the electrolyte in a galvanic cell? Is it just the inert solution in the salt bridge? Or the solvent and/or spectator ions?
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The electrolyte is the solutions in the containers, that the electrodes are immersed in. I'm not 100% sure if the solution that makes up the salt bridge is also referred to as an electrolyte.

In other words: The electrolyte are substances that release ions when in solution, and carries an electrical current. It provides a medium for transport of ions, thus allowing charge to be transferred. Also helps in maintaining the electrical neutrality through the salt bridge.

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9047 on: February 21, 2021, 07:35:17 pm »
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Hey there, could someone please help me with this question?

If 1.216g of a dampened sample of oxalic acid is titrated with acidified 0.1234M potassium permanganate, and 32.33 mL is required, what is the percentage water in the sample?

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9048 on: February 21, 2021, 07:35:45 pm »
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Hey there, could someone please help me with this question?

If 1.216g of a dampened sample of oxalic acid is titrated with acidified 0.1234M potassium permanganate, and 32.33 mL is required, what is the percentage water in the sample?

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9049 on: February 21, 2021, 08:47:24 pm »
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Hey :)

Would love some help with this question. Answer is stated as B. A step by step would be great!

Recall that pressure and volume are inversely proportional. Thus, if volume increases by a certain factor k, then pressure must decrease by that same factor k. In this question, the volume increases from 2.0 L to 3.2 L. Using simple division (3.2/2.0), we can work out that the volume increases by a factor of 1.6 (i.e. we multiply 2.0 L by our factor of 1.6 to get 3.2 L).

Now we must divide our pressure of 1.1 atm by the factor 1.6. This gives us 0.6875 atm, which we convert to kPa by multiplying by 101.3. This gives us 69.6 kPa (to 3 s.f.).

Note that the extra information about moles of oxygen and temperature are probably there to throw you off and trick you into thinking that PV=nRT is needed.

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9050 on: February 22, 2021, 03:56:07 pm »
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Do we need to know about natural gas? It's not on the SD but lots of resources mention it.
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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9051 on: February 22, 2021, 04:09:35 pm »
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Do we need to know about natural gas? It's not on the SD but lots of resources mention it.

Yes - if I remember correctly you need to know briefly about Coal Seam Gas and LPG which are both natural gases.

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9052 on: February 26, 2021, 07:51:14 am »
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Hey Im cant find the answer for this question, can someone tell me how to do it?


What volume of air (21.0% oxygen, O2, by volume), measured at SLC, would be required to fully combust 68.5 g of C3H8?

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9053 on: February 26, 2021, 11:20:46 am »
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Hey Im cant find the answer for this question, can someone tell me how to do it?


What volume of air (21.0% oxygen, O2, by volume), measured at SLC, would be required to fully combust 68.5 g of C3H8?

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Hi!

So to figure out this question your first step would be to create a balanced equation of the complete combustion of C3H8.

The equation would look like this [I've emitted states to save time, but please don't forget states in questions].
C3H8 + 5O2 -> 3CO2 + 4H2O

Now, we know that we have 68.5 grams of Propane. Therefore, to find out how much oxygen is needed to react with this amount of propane to make it combust, we need to find out how many mols of Propane we have.

Using n=m/fm
68.5/44 = 1.56mol

Next, we know we need 5 times as much O2 to react with this amount of propane, using the chemical equation. Hence,
n(O2) = 1.56 * 5 = 7.8 mol.

Then, as this question is asking for Volume, we need to find out how much Litres of O2 we need. As the experiment is being conducted under SLC, we use n = V/Vm.

V = 7.8 *24.8 = 193.44 L

Now, finally, we need to find out how much air gives us this much of oxygen. 21% of air is oxygen, so we can form an equation like this and rearrange.

V(air) * 0.21 = 193.44

V = 921.14 L of air.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions! I've attached my rough working below in case that helps better.


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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9054 on: February 26, 2021, 06:34:49 pm »
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Need serious Chem help...
How do you do percentage efficiency questions in Unit 3 Chemistry? Especially when they give you the %, maybe the mass and it tells you its in SLC.

A certain fuel contains 91% Octane, C8H18, by mass with the remainder being Ethanol C2H5OH.
When 2.50kg of this fuel is completely burnt at 25 degrees celcius and 100kPa, the amount of energy produced, in Megajoules, would be...

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9055 on: February 26, 2021, 07:28:04 pm »
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Need serious Chem help...
How do you do percentage efficiency questions in Unit 3 Chemistry? Especially when they give you the %, maybe the mass and it tells you its in SLC.

A certain fuel contains 91% Octane, C8H18, by mass with the remainder being Ethanol C2H5OH.
When 2.50kg of this fuel is completely burnt at 25 degrees celcius and 100kPa, the amount of energy produced, in Megajoules, would be...


Hi!

I've attached my working below (it takes me way too long to write chem on the forums) but I thought I'll supply a few hints for you first! See if you can figure out how to solve this problem with my hints first before looking at my solution :)

1. This is actually not a percentage efficiency question! Rather, you need to break up your steps to work out the individual energies that each fuel produces when combusted.
2. See if you can work out the mass of each individual fuel we have using the percentage given and the total mass.
3. The experiment is in SLC so that means you can use your data book to find out the Heat of Combustion of the fuel. I'm working in grams below, so I'm going to use the kj/gram value. Alternately, you can convert the masses into mols and use the kj/mol value.
4. Once you find out the energy released by the individual fuels, add them together to get the total.

I hope this helps a bit! My solution is below if you get stuck. Let me know if you have further questions!!

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9056 on: March 04, 2021, 09:29:49 pm »
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if a question asks to write down the thermochemical equation example ethanol do we assume that it is a complete combustion reaction and the products are carbon dioxide and water?

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9057 on: March 04, 2021, 09:47:22 pm »
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hey guys i need help with this question

 What is the net volume of carbon dioxide released when 5.00 MJ of
energy is obtained from the combustion of ethanol?

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9058 on: March 04, 2021, 10:07:19 pm »
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if a question asks to write down the thermochemical equation example ethanol do we assume that it is a complete combustion reaction and the products are carbon dioxide and water?
Ideally a question would specify if its a complete combustion reaction or not (i.e. write down the thermochemical equation for the complete combustion of ethanol) however, for VCE chemistry purposes it is okay to assume that it is a complete combustion with the products being carbon dioxide and water.) The data book values for the heat of combustion of the all the substances assume those products.

hey guys i need help with this question

 What is the net volume of carbon dioxide released when 5.00 MJ of
energy is obtained from the combustion of ethanol?
I'll give you a few hints to help solve this! Let me know if they still don't help and I'll put up a more detailed solution.

1. Start by writing a thermochemical equation for the combustion of ethanol.
2. Convert the 5MJ to KJ = you'll get a big number but it will be easier to work with as the Heat of Combustion values from the data book are in Kj/mol. (you could do this the other way around too)
3. Work out the amount of mols of ethanol required to be combusted to release this amount of energy. You can do this via the formula DeltaH = q/n
4. Use stoichiometric ratios to find out the mol of CO2 released when that amount of mols of ethanol is combusted.
5. The heat of combustion values from the data book assume the experiment was conducted under standard conditions. Therefore you can use the formula n=v/vm to find out the volume of CO2 released!

Hope this helps  :)

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Re: VCE Chemistry Question Thread
« Reply #9059 on: March 05, 2021, 09:17:28 pm »
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Hi everyone! My practical report SAC is coming up soon and I am absolutely lost on how to approach the discussion. The aim of the experiment is to order six unknown half-cells (A-F) by setting up a galvanic cell for every combination of half-cells and recording the voltages produced.

I think I understand the theory behind this practical. However, I don't at all know how I should present my results (currently it's in a two-way table, no graph), and don't know how to write 'observations' (of the data- the rubric says that this should 'compare and contrast the collected data'). I'm also not sure how to separate observations from 'links to chemical concepts', as it seems very difficult to explain the data without references to theory.

I've attached my results for reference. Thanks so much in advance for any help!  :-[
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