Organic Families (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Chemistry): Exam Questions

A liquid alkane was passed over heated aluminium oxide to make ethene.

What is the purpose of the mineral wool?

What is this type of chemical reaction called?

Give a test for ethene.

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What precaution should be taken in the experiment when the heat is removed? Explain.

The diagram shows how ethene can be made by cracking liquid alkanes.

Indicate with arrows on the diagram where heat is applied.

Give a chemical test to show the presence of ethene.

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Why must the delivery tube be removed from the water before the heat is turned off?

Ethene gas was formed by the cracking of a liquid alkane. The diagram shows the apparatus used.

Identify two mistakes in the diagram.

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Describe a test to show the presence of ethene.

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A student found a recipe for making elderberry wine by fermentation.

• 1kg elderberries

• 0.5kg sugar

• 10g yeast granules

• 3dm³ water

The student decided to make some elderberry wine using the apparatus below.

The student carried out the following method.

Step 1 The elderberries were crushed.

Step 2 The crushed elderberries and sugar were added to the water and the mixture was boiled for ten minutes. The crushed elderberries were then separated from the mixture.

Step 3 Yeast was added to the liquid when it had cooled to room temperature.

Suggest the purpose of the airlock in the apparatus.

What apparatus could be used in Step 1?

Draw a labelled diagram of the apparatus used to separate the crushed elderberries from the mixture in Step 2.

Why was the yeast in Step 3 not added until the liquid was at room temperature?

i) State one observation during the fermentation.

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 ii) Suggest how the rate of the fermentation reaction could be measured.

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Name the method that could be used to separate ethanol from the fermented mixture.