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SECTIONA Answer all questions. Write your answers in the boxes provided. 1. (a)

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Question

SECTIONA Answer all questions. Write your answers in the boxes provided. 1. (a) Two chemistry students wished to determine the enthalpy of hydration of anhydrous magnesium sulfate. They measured the initial and the highest temperature reached when anhydrous magnesium sulfate, MgSO,(s), was dissolved in water. They presented their results in the table below. mass of anhydrous magnesium sulfate /g volume of water/cm initial temperature / C highest temperature 3.01 50.0 17.0 26.7 (i) Calculate the amount, in mol, of anhydrous magnesium sulfate. (ii) Calculate the enthalpy change, water, in kJmol". State your answer to the correct number of significant figures. for anhydrous magnesíurn sulfate dissolving in (21 (This question continues on the following page)

Explanation / Answer

Number of moles

Mass of substance taken in gram/ molecular weight of substance in gram

3/120.366 =0.24924

Heat liberated on dissolving 3 gram MgSO4

Specific heat capacity of water = 4.184 joules

Quantity of heat = c M ?T

                                = 4.184 × 50 × (26.7-17)

                                = 4.184 × 50 × 9.7

                                = 2029 Joules

Ie,

2.029 KJ of heat energy is liberated when 0.24924 moles of anhydrous MgSO4 ­­dissolves In 50 mL of water.