JAMB - Chemistry (1993)

  • 1
    Which of the following substances is a mixture?
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    (B)
    Bronze
  • 2
    A balanced chemical equation obeys the law of?
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    (A)
    conservation of mass
  • 3
    How many moles of oxygen molecules would be produced from the decomposition of 2.50 moles of potassium trioxochlorate (V)?
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    (C)
    3.75
  • 4
    For iodine crystals to sublime on heating, the molecules must acquire energy that is?
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    (D)
    greater than the forces of attraction in both the solid and the liquid phases
  • 5
    An element, E, has the electronic configuration 1s22s22p63s2p3. The reaction of E with a halogen X can give?
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    (A)
    EX3 and EX5
  • 6
    Two atoms represented as U and U are?
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    (C)
    isotopes
  • 7
    As the difference in electronegativity between bonded atoms increases, polarity of the bond?
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    (B)
    increases
  • 8
    Which group of elements forms hydrides that are pyramidal in structure?
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    (C)
    V
  • 9
    Water has a rather high boiling point despite its low molecular mass because of the presence of?
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    (A)
    hydrogen bonding
  • 10
    Argon is used in gas-filled electric lamp because it helps to?
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    (B)
    prevent oxidation of the lamp fillaments
  • 11
    The air around a petroleum refinery is most likely to contain?
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    (C)
    SO2, CO and NO2
  • 12
    Water can be identified by the use of?
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    (A)
    anhydrous copper (II) tetraoxosulphate (VI)
  • 13
    The phenomenon whereby sodium trioxocarbonate (IV) decahydrate loses some of its water of crystallization on exposure to the atmosphere is known as?
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    (D)
    efflorescence
  • 14
    A student prepares 0.5 M solution each of hydrochloric and ethanoic acids and then measured pH. The result would show that the?
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    (D)
    ethanoic acid solution has a higher pH
  • 15
    NH\(_3\)  +  H\(_3\)O\(^+\) → NH\(_4\)\(^+\) + H\(_2\)O. It may be deduced from the reaction above that?
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    (C)
    H3O+ acts as an acid
  • 16
    4.0 g of sodium hydroxide in 250 cm3 of solution contains?
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    (A)
    0.40 moles per dm3
  • 17
    During the electrolysis of a salt of a metal M, a current of 0.5 A flows from for 32 minutes 10 seconds and deposits 0.325 g of M, What is the charge of the metal ion?

    (M = 65, If = 96,500 C per mole of electron)
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    (B)
    2
  • 18
    Which of the reactions occurs at the anode during the electrolysis of a very dilute aqueous solution of sodium chloride?
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    (A)
    OH- - e → OH
  • 19
    The oxidation states of chlorine in HOCL, HCLO3 and HCLO4 are respectively?
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    (D)
    +1, +5 and +7
  • 20
    A reaction takes places spontaneously if?
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    (C)
    ∆H < T ∆S
  • 21
    The standard enthalpies of formation of CO2(g), H2O(g) and CO(g) in kJ mol- are -394, -242 and -110 respectively. What is the standard enthalpy change for the reaction CO(g) + H2(g)O → CO2(g) + H2(g)?
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    (A)
    -42 KJ mol-
  • 22
    10g of a solid is in equilibrium with its own vapour.
    When 1 g of a small amount of solid is added, the vapour pressure?
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    (A)
    remains the same
  • 23
    NaCI(s) + H2SO4(I) → HCI(g) + NaHSO4(s).
    In the reaction above, H2SO4 behaves as?
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    (A)
    a strong acid
  • 24
    Which of these gases can be dried with concentrated H2SO4?
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    (D)
    SO2
  • 25
    Which of these salts will produce its metal, oxygen and nitrogen (IV) oxide on heating?
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    (A)
    Silver and trioxonitrate (V)
  • 26
    An experiment produces a gaseous mixtures of carbon (IV) oxide and carbon (II) oxide. In order to obtain pure carbon (II) oxide, the gas mixture should be?
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    (C)
    bubbled through sodium hydroxide solution
  • 27
    Which of the following is a property of ionic chlorides?
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    (B)
    They react with aqueous AgNO3 to give a white precipiate which is soluble in excess ammonia
  • 28
    When dilute aqueous solutions of lead (II) nitrate and potassium bromide are mixed, a precipitate is observed.
    The products of this reaction are?
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    (D)
    PbBr2(s) + K(aq) + K+(aq) + NO3(aq)
  • 29
    Bronze is an alloy of?
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    (E)
    copper and tin
  • 30
    The active reducing agent in the blast furnace for the extraction of iron is?
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    (C)
    carbon(II)oxide
  • 31
    The fraction of crude oil used as jet fuel is?
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    (C)
    kerosene
  • 32
    It is not desirable to use lead tetraethyl as an anti-knock agent because?
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    (B)
    of pollution effects from the exhaust fumes
  • 33
    Al2O3(s) + 3H2SO4(aq) → Al2(SO4(aq)) + 3H2(I)O
    Al2O3(s) + 2NaOH(aq)) + 3H2(I)O → 2NaAl(OH)4(aq)).
    We can conclude from the equations above that Al2O3(s) is?
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    (B)
    an amphoteric oxide
  • 34
    The carbon atoms on ethane are?
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    (B)
    sp3 hybridized
  • 35
    Palm wine turns sour with time because?
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    (D)
    microbial activity results in the production of orgain acids within it
  • 36
    Catalytic hydrogenation of benzene produces?
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    (C)
    cyclohexane
  • 37
    Which of the following represents saponification?
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    (D)
    Reaction of alkanoates with sodium hydroxide
  • 38
    The confirmatory test for alkanoic acids in organic qualitative analysis is the?
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    (B)
    reaction with alkanols to form esters
  • 39
    A gas that will turn orange potassium heptaoxodichromate (lV) solution to clear green is?
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    (C)
    sulphide (lV) oxide
  • 40
    Which of the curves above represents the behaviour of 1 mole of an ideal gas?
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    (C)
    lll
  • 41

    For which salt in the graph above does the solubility increase most rapidly with rise in temperature?

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    (B)
    KNO3
  • 42

    Half-cell reaction. From the data above , it can be deduced that the most powerful reducing agent of the four metals is

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    (C)
    Ba
  • 43
    In the diagram above, curve X represents the energy profile for a homogeneous gaseous reaction. Which of the following conditions would produce curve Y for the same reaction?
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    (C)
    Addition of a catalyst
  • 44

    The two functional groups in the above compound are

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    (B)
    acid and amine
  • 45
    The IUPAC nomenclature for the compound above is
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    (D)
    2.4 dimethylhexane