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Regents Review #3
Solutions and Acids and Bases
Base your answers to questions 1 through 4 on the information below.
In a laboratory, a student makes a solution by completely dissolving 80.0 grams of KNO3 (s)
in 100.0 grams of hot water. The resulting solution has a temperature of 60˚C. The room
temperature in the laboratory is 22˚C.
1. Classify, in terms of saturation, the type of solution made by the student.
2. Compare the boiling point of the solution at standard pressure to the boiling point of
water at standard pressure.
3. Describe the direction of heat flow between the solution made by the student and the air
in the laboratory.
4. Describe a laboratory procedure that can be used to recover the solid solute from the
aqueous solution.
Base your answers to questions 5 and 6 on the information below.
Natural gas is a mixture that includes butane, ethane, methane, and propane. Differences in
boiling points can be used to separate the components of natural gas. The boiling points at
standard pressure for these components are listed in the table below.
5. Identify a process used to separate the components of natural gas.
6. List the four components of natural gas in order of increasing strength of intermolecular
forces.
7. What is the mass of KNO3 (s) that must dissolve in 100 grams of water to form a
saturated solution at 50˚C?
Base your answers to questions 8 through 11 on the information below.
A total of 1.4 moles of sodium nitrate is dissolved in enough water to make 2.0 liters of an
aqueous solution. The gram formula mass of sodium nitrate is 85 grams per mole.
8. Write the chemical formula for the solute in the solution.
9. Show a numerical setup for calculating the mass of the solute used to make the solution.
10. Compare the boiling point of the solution at standard pressure to the boiling point of
H2O at standard pressure.
11. Determine the molarity of the solution.
Base your answers to questions 12 through 15 on the information below.
In liquid water, an equilibrium exists between H2O () molecules, H+ (aq) ions, and OH- (aq)
ions. A person experiencing acid indigestion after drinking tomato juice can ingest milk of
magnesia to reduce the acidity of the stomach contents. Tomato juice has a pH value of 4.
Milk of magnesia, a mixture of magnesium hydroxide and water, has a pH value of 10.
12. Complete the equation on your answer sheet for the equilibrium that exists in liquid
water.
13. Compare the hydrogen ion concentration in tomato juice to the hydrogen ion
concentration in milk of magnesia.
14. Identify the negative ion found in milk of magnesia.
15. What is the color of thymol blue indicator when placed in a sample of milk of
magnesia?
Base your answers to questions 16 through 18 on the information below.
Some carbonated beverages are made by forcing carbon dioxide gas into a beverage
solution. When a bottle of one kind of carbonated beverage is first opened, the beverage has
a pH value of 3.
16. State, in terms of the pH scale, why this beverage is classified as acidic.
17. Using Table M, identify one indicator that is yellow in a solution that has the same pH
value as this beverage.
18. After the beverage bottle is left open for several hours, the hydronium ion concentration
in the beverage solution decreases to 1/1,000 of the original concentration. Determine
the new pH of the beverage solution.
Base your answers to questions 19 through 21 on the information below.
Calcium reacts with water. This reaction is represented by the balanced equation below.
The aqueous product of this reaction can be heated to evaporate the water, leaving a white
solid, Ca(OH)2 (s).
19. Compare the electrical conductivity of the aqueous product in the reaction to the
electrical conductivity of the white solid that remains after the water is evaporated from
the solution.
20. Write the chemical name of the base produced in the reaction.
21. State one change in reaction conditions that will increase the rate of the reaction.
Base your answers to questions 22 through 24 on the information below.
In a titration, 20.0 milliliters of 0.15 M HCl (aq) is exactly neutralized by 18.0 milliliters of
KOH (aq).
22. Write the neutralization reaction that occurs between HCl and KOH.
23. Compare the number of moles of H+ (aq) ions to the number of moles of OH- (aq) ions
in the titration mixture when the HCl (aq) is exactly neutralized by the KOH (aq).
24. Determine the concentration of the KOH (aq).
Base your answers to questions 25 through 27 on the information below.
The diagram below shows typical pH values found in four parts of the human digestive
system. In the small intestine, the enzyme lipase acts as a catalyst, increasing the rate of fat
digestion.
25. Which labeled part of the digestive system has the most acidic environment?
26. What is the color of thymol blue at the pH of the small intestine?
27. State how the catalyst lipase increases the rate of the fat digestion.