CHEMISTRY QUESTIONS

MOLE CONCEPT AND RELATED CALCULATIONS

1. A chemist has a jar containing 388.2g of iron fillings. How many moles of iron does the

jar contain?

2. Calculate the number of moles in each of the following masses

a) 64.1g of Aluminium

b) 28.1g of silicon

c) 0.255g of Sulphur

d) 850.5g of zinc

3. A student needs 0.366 mol of zinc for a reaction. what mass of zinc in grams should the

student obtain?

4. Calculate the mass of each of the following amounts

a) 1.22 mol sodium

b) 14.5 mol copper

c) 0.275 mol mercury

d) 9.37 × 10−3 mol magnesium

5. How many moles of lithium are there in 1.204× 1024 lithium atoms?

6. Calculate the amount in moles of each of the following quantities

a) 3.01 × 1023 atoms of rubidium

b) 8.08 × 1022 atoms of krypton

c) 5.7 × 109 atoms of lead

d) 2.997 × 1025 atoms of vanadium

7. Calculate the amount of atoms in each of the following amounts

a) 1.004 mol bismuth

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 b) 2.5 mol manganese

c) 2 × 10−7 mol helium

d) 32.6 mol strontium

8. How many boron atoms are there in 2.00g of boron?

9. Calculate the number of atoms in each of the following masses

a) 54.0g of Aluminium

b) 69.45g of lanthanum

c) 0.697g of gallium

d) 2 × 10−8 𝑔 of beryllium

10. Calculate the mass of the following numbers of atoms

a) 6.022 × 1024 atoms of tantalum

b) 3.01 × 1021 atoms of cobalt

c) 1.506 × 1024 atoms of argon

d) 1.20 × 1025 atoms of helium

11. How many moles of carbon dioxide are in 66.0g of dry ice, which is solid CO2?

12. Calculate the number of moles in each of the following masses

e) 3.00g of boron tribromide (BBr3)

f) 0.472g of sodium fluoride (NaF)

g) 7.50 × 102 g methanol (CH3OH)

h) 50.0g of calcium chlorate

13. Determine the mass of each of the following amounts

a) 1.366 mol of NH3

b) 0.120 mol of glucose (C6H12O6)

c) 6.94 mol of barium chloride

d) 0.005 mol of propane (C6H8)

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14. Determine the number of molecules in 0.0500 mol of hexane (C6H14)

15. Calculate the number of molecules in each of the following amounts

a) 4.99 mol of methane (CH4)

b) 0.0052 mol of nitrogen gas

c) 1.05 mol of phosphorous trichloride (PCl3)

d) 3.5 × 10−5 mol of vitamin C (ascorbic acid, C6H8O6)

16. Calculate the number of ions in the following amounts

a) 1.25 mol of potassium bromide

b) 5.00 mol of magnesium chloride

c) 0.025 mol of sodium carbonate

d) 6.82 × 10−6 mol of lead (II) nitrate

17. Calculate the amount in moles of the following

a) 3.34 × 1034 ions of Cu(OH)2

b) 1.17 × 1016 molecules of H2S

c) 5.47 × 1021 ions of nickel (II) sulphate (NiSO4)

d) 7.66 × 1019 molecules of hydrogen peroxide

18. What is the mass of a sample consisting of 1.00 × 1022 ions of MgSO4?

19. Calculate the mass of each of the following quantities

a) 2.41 × 1024 molecules of hydrogen

b) 5.00 × 1021 ions of Aluminium hydroxide

c) 8.25 × 1022 molecules of bromine pentafluoride (BrF5)

d) 1.20 × 1023 ions of sodium oxalate (Na2C2O4)

20. Calculate the number of molecules in each of the following masses

a) 22.9g of sodium sulphide

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 b) 0.272g of nickel (II) nitrate (Ni(NO3)2)

c) 260mg of acrylonitrile (CH3CHCN)

21. Calculate the number of moles in each of the following masses

a) 0.039g of palladium

b) 8200g of iron

c) 0.0073kg of tantalum

d) 0.00655g of antimony

e) 5.64kg of barium

f) 3.37 × 10−6 g of molybdenum

22. Calculate the mass in grams of each of the following amounts

a) 1.002 mol of chromium

b) 550 mol of Aluminium

c) 4.08 × 10−8 mol of neon

d) 7 mol of titanium

e) 0.0086 mol of xenon

f) 3.29 × 104 mol of lithium

23. Calculate the number of atoms in each of the following amounts

a) 17.0 mol of germanium

b) 0.6144 mol of copper

c) 3.02 mol of tin

d) 2.0 × 106 mol of carbon

e) 0.0019 mol of zirconium

f) 3.227 × 10−10 mol of potassium

24. Calculate the number of moles in each of the following quantities

a) 6.022 × 1024 atoms of cobalt

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 b) 1.06 × 1023 atoms of tungsten

c) 3.008 × 1019 atoms of silver

d) 9.5 × 108 atoms of plutonium

e) 4.61 × 1017 atoms of radon

f) 8 trillion atoms of cerium

25. Calculate the number of atoms in each of the following masses

a) 0.0082g of gold

b) 812g of molybdenum

c) 2.00 × 102 mg of americium

d) 10.09kg of neon

e) 0.705mg of bismuth

f) 37g of uranium

26. Calculate the mass of each of the following

a) 8.22 × 1023 atoms of rubidium

b) 2.439 × 1024 atoms of manganese

c) 9.96 × 1036 atoms of tellurium

d) 2.5 × 10−5 atoms of rhodium

e) 8.83 × 1013 atoms of radium

f) 2.94 × 1017 atoms of hafnium

27. Calculate the number of moles in each of the following masses

a) 45.0g of acetic acid

b) 7.04g of lead (II) nitrate

c) 5000kg of iron (III) oxide

d) 12mg of ethylamine (C2H5NH2)

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 e) 3.22 × 10−3 g of stearic acid (C17H35COOH)

f) 50kg of ammonium sulphate

28. Calculate the mass of each of the following amounts

a) 3.00 mol of selenium oxybromide (SeOBr2)

b) 488 mol of calcium carbonate

c) 0.0091 mol of retinoic acid (C20H28O2)

d) 6.00 × 10−8 mol of nicotine (C10H14N2)

e) 2.50 mol of strontium nitrate (Sr(NO3)2)

f) 3.50 × 10−10 mol of uranium hexafluoride (UF6)

29. Calculate the number of molecules in each of the following amounts

a) 4.27 mol of tungsten (VI) oxide (WO3)

b) 3 × 10−3 mol of strontium nitrate (Sr(NO3)2)

c) 72.5 mol of toluene (C6H5CH3)

d) 5.11× 10−7 mol of vitamin E (C29H50O2)

e) 1500 mol of hydrazine (N2H4)

f) 0.989 mol of nitrobenzene (C6H5NO2)

30. Calculate the number of ions in each of the following masses

a) 285g of iron (III) phosphate

b) 0.0084g of lithium carbonate

c) 0.0067g of lithium hydroxide

d) 4.6 × 10−4 g of mercury (II) acetate (Hg(C2H3O2)2)

31. Calculate the mass of each of the following quantities

a) 8.39 × 1023 molecules of fluorine

b) 6,82 × 1024 ions of beryllium sulphate

c) 7.004 × 1026 molecules of chloroform (CHCl3)

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 d) 31 billion ions of chromium (III) chloride (CrCl3)

e) 6.3 × 1018 molecules of nitric acid

f) 8.37 × 1025 molecules of Freon (C2Cl2F4)

32. A chemist needs 22g of phenol (C6H5OH) for an experiment. How many moles of phenol

is this?

33. A student need 0.015 mol of iodine crystals (I2) for an experiment. What mass of iodine

crystals should the student obtain?

34. Precious metals are commonly measured in troy ounces; a troy ounce is equivalent to

31.1g. How many moles are in a troy ounce of gold? How many moles are in a troy ounce

of platinum and of silver?

35. The weight of a diamond is given in carats. one carat is equivalent to 200mg. a pure

diamond is made up entirely of carbon atoms. How many carbon atoms make up a 100

carat diamond?

36. 8.00g of calcium chloride is dissolved in 1kg of water, how many moles of CaCl2 are in

solution? How many moles of water are present? Assume that the ionic compound CaCl 2

separates completely into Ca2+ and Cl- ions when it dissolves in water, how many moles of

each ion are present in the solution?

37. How many moles are in each of the following masses?

a) 453.6g of sucrose (table sugar), C12H22O11

b) 1 pound of table salt

38. When the ionic compound (NH4Cl) dissolves in water, it breaks into ammonium ion and

chloride ion, if you dissolve 10.7g of NH4Cl in water. how many ions would be in solution?

39. What is the total amount in moles of atoms in a jar that contain 2.41 × 1024 atoms of

chromium, 1.51 × 1023 atoms of nickel and 3.01 × 1023 atoms of copper.

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40. The density of liquid water is 0.997g/ml at 25℃

a) Calculate the mass of 250ml of water

b) How many moles of water are in 250ml of water (use the results obtain from (a)

above)?

c) Calculate the volume that would be occupied by 2 mol of water at 25℃

d) What mass of water is 2 mol of water?

41. One mole of sugar molecules has a mass of 342g, but one mole of water molecule has a

mass of only 18g. Explain why there is such a difference between the mass of 1 mol of

sugar and the mass of 1 mol of water.

42. Calculate the mass of Aluminium that would have the same number of atoms as 6.35g of

cadmium

43. A chemist weighs a steel cylinder of compressed oxygen (O2) and finds that it has a mass

of 1027.8g. after some of the oxygen is used in an experiment the cylinder has a mass 0f

1023.2g. How many moles of oxygen gas are used in the experiment?

44. Suppose that you could decompose 0.250mol of Ag2S into its elements

a) How many moles of silver would you have?

b) How many moles of Sulphur would you have?

c) How many moles of Ag2S are there in 38.8g of Ag2S?

d) How many moles of silver and Sulphur would be produced from this amount of

Ag2S?

e) Calculate the masses of silver and Sulphur produced in (b) above.

45. How many molecules and atoms of Sulphur are present in 0.1mol of S8 molecule?

46. Calculate the number of moles of iodine in a sample containing 1.0 × 1022 molecules

47. Calculate the mass of

a) An atom of silver

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 b) 1 molecule of C10H8

c) 1 atom of C-14

d) 1 molecule of N2

e) 1 molecule of water

f) 100 molecules of C12H22O11

48. Calculate the number of molecules and number of atoms present in 11.2 litres of oxygen

gas at S.T.P

49. The mass of 94.5ml of a gas at S.T.P is found to be 0.2231g. calculate its molecular mass

50. Calculate the number of moles in the following

a) 7.85g of iron

b) 4.68mg of silicon

c) 65.6kg of carbon

51. Calculate the number of molecules in a drop of water weighing 0.05g

52. Calculate the number of atoms in each of the following

a) 52mol of Ar

b) 52g of He

c) 7.8mg of Ca

d) 1.46tones of Al (1 ton = 1000kg)

53. Suppose the chemist had chosen 1020 as the number of particles, what would be the mass

of the oxygen gas?

54. Calculate the number of atoms of each type in 5.3g of sodium carbonate

55. Calculate the number of particles present in

a) 1kg of oxygen

b) 1L of hydrogen gas at S.T.P

c) 0.5mol of carbon

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 d) 3.2g of Sulphur

e) 18.0g of glucose (C6H12O6)

56. Chlorophyll the green coloring matter of plants contain 2.68% of magnesium by weight.

calculate the number of magnesium atoms in 2.00g of chlorophyll.

57. KBr (potassium bromide) contains 32.9% by weight of potassium. If 6.40g of bromine

reacts with 3.60g of potassium, calculate the number of moles of potassium which combine

with bromine to form potassium bromide.

58. Silver is a very precious metal and is used in jewelry. one million atoms of silver weigh

1.79 × 10−16 g. Calculate the atomic mass of silver.

59. Calculate the weight of carbon monoxide having same number of oxygen atoms as are

present in 88g of carbon dioxide.

60. Calculate the mass of sodium which contains same number of atoms as are present in 15g

of calcium.

61. What volume is occupied at S.T.P by

a) 1.4g of nitrogen

b) 6.023 × 1021 molecules of oxygen

c) 0.2mol of ammonia

62. How many molecules of CO2 are present in one liter of air containing 0.03% by volume of

CO2 at S.T.P?

63. Calculate the difference in the number of carbon atoms in 1.0g of C-14 isotope and 1.0g of

C-12 isotope.

64. Calculate the total number of electrons present in 1.6g of methane (CH4)

65. How many molecules of aspirin (molar mass = 180g/mol) are present in 50mg tablet?

66. Two bulbs A and B of equal capacity contain 10g of oxygen (O2) and ozone (O3)

respectively, which bulb will have

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 a) Larger number of molecules?

b) Larger number of oxygen atoms?

67. In three moles of ethane (C2H6), calculate the following

a) Number of moles of carbon

b) Number of moles of hydrogen atom

c) Number of molecules of ethane

68. Which one of the following will have largest number of atoms?

a) 1g of Au

b) 1g of Na

c) 1g of Li

d) 1g of Cl2

69. 1 × 1021 molecules are removed from 280mg of carbon monoxide, calculate the number

of moles of carbon monoxide left.

70. Calculate the amount of water in grams produced by combustion of 16g methane (CH4)?

71. How many moles of methane are required to produce 22g of CO2 after combustion?

72. Chlorine is prepared in the laboratory by treating manganese dioxide (MnO2) with aqueous

hydrochloric acid (HCl). How many grams of HCl react with 5.0g of manganese dioxide?

73. What mass of calcium oxide will be obtained by heating 3mol of marble chips?

74. Calculate the weight of iron which will be converted into its oxide (Fe3O4) by the action of

14.4g of steam on it.

3Fe(s) + 4H2O(l) → Fe3O4(s) + 4H2(g)

75. How many grams of chlorine are required to completely react with 0.40g of hydrogen gas

to yield hydrochloric acid? also calculate the amount of hydrochloric acid formed.

76. What weight of zinc would be required to produce enough hydrogen to reduce

completely 8.5g of copper oxide to copper?

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77. Calculate the amount of lime water required to remove the hardness of 60000 litres of

well water containing 16.2g of calcium carbonate per hundred liters.

78. 5.6 liters of methane gas is ignited in oxygen gas. Calculate the number of moles of

carbondioxide formed.

79. Calculate the percentage yield of the reaction if 64g NaBH4 with iodine produced 15.0g

of BI3

NaBH4 + 4I2 → BI3 + NaI + 4HI

80. 50kg of N2 and 10kg of H2 are mixed to produce NH3

a) Calculate the NH3 formed

b) Identify the limiting reagent on this reaction if any.

81. If 20.0g of egg shells is treated with 20.0g of hydrochloric acid, how many grams of

carbondioxide gas can be produced.

82. A 1.84g mixture of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate upon heating gave a

0.96g residue. Calculate the percentage composition of the mixture.

83. An impure sample of sodium chloride which weighed 1.20g gave on treatment with

excess of AgNO3 solution gave 2.40g of silver chloride as a precipitate, Calculate the

percentage purity of the sample.

84. A 2.0g of sample containing sodium carbonate and sodium hydrogen carbonate loses

0.248g when heated to 300℃ the temperature at which sodium hydrogen carbonate

decomposes to sodium carbonate, carbondioxide and water. What is the percentage of

Na2CO3 in the mixture?

85. Calculate the amount of potassium chlorate needed to supply sufficient oxygen for

burning 112L of CO gas at S.T.P.

86. What volume of air at STP containing 21% of oxygen by volume is required to

completely burn 1000g of Sulphur containing 4% of incombustible matter?

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87. Calculate the volume of oxygen at STP that would be required to convert 5.2L of carbon

monoxide to carbon dioxide

88. What volume of oxygen at STP is required to effect complete combustion of 200 cm3 of

acetylene (C2H2) and what would be the volume of carbondioxide formed?

89. Dinitrogen and dihydrogen react with each other to produce ammonia according to the

following chemical reaction.

N2 (g) + H2 (g) → 2NH3 (g)

a) Calculate the mass of ammonia produced if 2000g of dinitrogen react with

1000g of dihydrogen

b) will any of the two reactants remain unreacted?

c) If yes which one and what would be its mass?

90. Methane is the principal component of natural gas. How many moles of methane are

present in 6.07g of methane?

91. How many hydrogen atoms are present in 25,6g of urea ((NH2)2CO) which is used as a

fertilizer in animal feed and in the manufacture of polymers.

92. How many hydrogen atoms are in 72.5g of isopropanol (C3H8O)?

93. The food we eat is broken down in our bodies to produce energy for growth and function,

a general overall equation is shown below

C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O

If 856g of C6H12O6 is consumed by a person over a certain period, what is the mass of

CO2 produced?

94. Methanol (CH3OH) burns in air according to the equation

CH3OH + O2 → 2CO2 + 4H2O

If 209g of methanol are used up in a combustion process, what is the mass of water

produced?

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95. All alkali metals react with water to produce hydrogen gas and the corresponding alkali

metal hydroxide. A typical reaction is that between lithium and water

2Li (s) + 2H2O (l) → 2LiOH (aq) + H2 (g)

How many grams of lithium are needed to produce 9.89g of hydrogen gas?

96. Urea ((NH2)2CO) is prepared by reacting ammonia with carbondioxide

2NH3 (g) + CO2 (g) → (NH2)2CO (aq) + H2O (l)

In one process 637.2g of NH3 are treated with 1142g of CO2

a) Which of the two reactants is the limiting reagent?

b) Calculate the mass of (NH2)2CO formed

c) How much excess reagent (in grams) is left at the end of the reaction?

97. The decomposition of Pb(NO3)2 is as indicated in the following equation:

Pb(NO3)2 (s) → PbO (s) + NO2 (g) + O2 (g)

If 0.01 mole of lead nitrate is used, what will be the maximum volume of oxygen

collected at room temperature and pressure? (GMV = 22.4 dm3).

98. When 32 tons of pure calcium carbide were used up in an industrial process, the

following reaction that yielded ethyne (C2H2) occurred:

CaC2 (s) + H2O (l) → C2H2 (g) + Ca(OH)2 (aq)

Calculate:

a) The mass of water required for the complete reaction to occur.

b) The mass of calcium hydroxide produced.

c) What volume of ethyne (C2H2) measured at STP would be evolved if CaC2 was

50% pure.

d) How many molecules of ethyne were formed in (c)?

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99. The equation for the formation of iron (III) chloride is as follows:

Fe (s) + Cl2 (g) → FeCl3 (s)

If the total mass of iron (III) chloride formed at STP is found to be 0.5 g. Calculate the

volume of Cl2 that reacted with iron.

100. How many moles of barium sulphate are produced when 80.5 g of sodium sulphate

react completely with barium nitrate?

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