JAMB UTME - Chemistry - 1981

When glowing splint is inserted into the mouth of a jar containing a gas, the splint is extinguished. The gas gives a white precipitate when passing into barium hydroxide. The gas is?

In the reaction of oxygen with hydrogen to produce water, which of the following statements is true?

4g each of aluminium foil and aluminium powder were introduced respectively into flasks P and Q.
Flask P was treated with warm bench sodium hydroxide and all the aluminium dissolved in one hour. Flask Q was treated with cold sodium hydroxide and all the aluminium dissolved in 10 minutes. What was responsible for Q reacting faster than P?

The electronic configuration of elements X and Y are X = 2, 8, 6; Y = 2, 8, 7. The bond in the compound formed by X and Y is expected to be?

In the preparation of ammonia, which of the following is used as the drying agent?

5cm³ of a saturated solution of sodium chloride at 30°C gave, on careful evaporation, 1.95g of solid salt. The solubility of sodium chloride at 30°C?

(Na = 23, Cl = 35.5)

Which of the following compounds and elements would sublime on exposure to the atmosphere?

Which of the following statements about phosphorus is NOT correct?

28.8 cm³ of nitrogen at 15°C is cooled to O°C at constant pressure, the new volume of nitrogen is?

An efflorescent compound is a substance that?

Which of the following processes takes place during electrolysis?

Oxidation is the process of?

Which one of the following metals is not normally extracted by chemical reduction because of its position in the electrochemical series?

The oxidation number of manganese in KMnO₄ is?

Which of the following statements is NOT true of electrovalent compounds?

If an organic compound decolorizes bromine water then the compound is?

Which of the following is the electronic configuration of sodium?
(Atomic number of Na = 11)

An example of a strong electrolyte is?

The general formula of an alkyl halide (which represent the halide) is?

When sodium nitrate dissolves in water, ∆H is positive. This means that?

Methane is member of the homologous series called?

Sodium and potassium belong to the same group of the Periodic Table. This is because?

In the extraction of iron, which of the following reactions does NOT take place in the blast furnace?

When hydrogen sulphide and sulphur dioxide are each passed in turn into a solution of potassium dichromate?

The products of the reaction between dilute sulphuric acid and sodium thiosulphate crystals are?

When air is compressed?

The mass number of an atom is?

The following compounds are given with their corresponding boiling points.
Compound Boiling Point
i.................................14°C
ii................................24°C
iii................................0°C
iv................................120°C
V.................................-2°C
From the above information, indicate which of the following is correct?

The scale formation in a kinetic used for boiling water is caused by the presence in water of?

A polymerization reaction is one in which?

What happens when the nitrates of potassium, calcium, zinc and copper are separately heated?

Which of the following can have an isomer?

the number of atoms in one mole of a substance is equal to?

When a bottle of Coca-Cola is opened, bubbles of evolve. The gas is?

If concentrated sulphric acid is added to sugar and warmed gently, the sugar changes from white to brown and finally to a black mas of carbon. In this reaction, concentrated sulphuric acid is acting as ?

Allotropes are elements having?

Fats and oils are?

Which of the following is NOT a true statement of the kinetic Theory of Gases?

Na₂CO₃ + 2HCI → 2NaCI + H₂O + CO₂. Using the above equation, what volume of carbondioxide, measured at s.t.p is liberated when 53g of sodium carbonate is dissolved in hydrochloric acid?
(1 mole of gas occupies 22.4 dm³ at s.t.p)
(Na = 23, C = 12, O = 16)

What mass of sodium carbonate solution is in 500 cm³ of 0.1 molar sodium carbonate solution?

(Na = 23, C = 12, O = 16)

Which of the following represents a precipitation reaction?

For iron to rust, there should be present?

In the reaction
C + 2HNO₃ → CO₂ + NO₂ + NO + H₂O nitric acid is acting as?

The IUPAC name for

If 48,000 coulombs of electricity are required to discharge 0.5 mole of sodium from a molten sodium chloride mass, then the number of coulombs required to discharge 2 moles of lead from molten lead (ll) chloride is?

Pure sulphuric acid is a liquid of 1:84 density. What volume of it would be required to prepare 250 cm³ of 2.0 M solution?



(H = 1, S = 32, O = 16)

If one mole of aluminium contains 6 x 10²³ atoms of aluminium, how many atoms are contained in 0.9g of aluminium?
(Al = 27)

The brown coloration in nitric acid prepared in the laboratory can be removed by?

An element X has 127 neutrons and 82 electrons.
Its atomic number is?