A form one student crushed banana leaves with water and left the mixture for some days. He found that the mixture had fermented. He suspected...

      

A form one student crushed banana leaves with water and left the mixture for some days. He found that the mixture had fermented. He suspected that the mixture had been contaminated with ethanol which has a boiling point of 780C while water has a boiling point of 1000C. The student then set up the apparatus below to separate the mixture.
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(i) Name the piece of apparatus labelled B.
(ii) What is the purpose of the thermometer in the set up?
(iii) At what point of apparatus B should the tap water be connected. Explain.
(iv) Name the part labelled A and state its function
(v) Which liquid was collected first? Explain
(vi) What is the name given to the above method of separating mixtures?
(vii) What property of the components of the mixture makes it possible for the components to be separated by the method?
(viii) State two applications of the above method of separation.

(b) A form two student was supplied with a liquid suspected to be water.
(i) Describe one chemical test that would be carried out to show that the liquid was water.
(ii) How would it have been proved that the liquid is pure water?

  

Answers


Maurice
(a) (i) Liebig condenser

(ii) It helps in determining the boiling range so that pure ethanol is obtained. When liquids boil, there temperatures remain constant.

(iii) Point C;
Explanation: The cold water will provide maximum contact with the distillate in the delivery tube.

(iv) Part A: Fractionating column.
-It increases the surface area for condensation of the substance whose boiling point has not been reached.
-Provides a surface in which vapour condenses into liquid and the liquid redistills.
(v) -Ethanol was collected first

-It has a lower boiling point 780C, hence it boils first.

(vi) Fractional distillation

(vii) Have different but close boiling points.

(viii) -Manufacture of spirits
-Fractional distillation of crude oil.
-Obtaining oxygen from liquid air.

(b) (i) Add to any unhydrous cobalt chloride paper which turn from blue to pink.
OR: Add the liquid to anhydrous copper (II) sulphate which turns from white to blue.

(ii) By determining the boiling point of the liquid.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on September 3, 2019 at 10:46


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