Question from (AQA,GCEAS, Unit 1, JAN,2005)
Ammonium sulphate reacts with aqueous sodium hydroxide as shown by the eqt. below:
(NH4)2 SO4 + 2NaOH --> 2NH3 + Na2SO4 + H2O
A sample of ammonium sulphate was heated with 100cm^3 of 0.500 ml dm^-3 aqueous sodium hydroxide. To ensure that all the ammonium sulphate reacted, an excess of sodium hydroxide was used.
Heating was continued until all of the ammonia had been driven off as a gas. The unreacted sodium hydroxide remaining in the solution required 27.3cm^-3 of 0.600mol dm^-3 hydrochloric acid for neutralization.
a) calculate the original number of moles of NaOH in 100cm^3 of 0.500mol dm^-3 aqueous sodium hydroxide.
b) Calculate the number of moles of HCl in 27.3cm^3 of 0.600mol dm^-3 hydrochloric acid.
c) Deduce the number of moles of the unreacted NaOH neutralized by the hydrochloric acid.
d) Use your answers from parts(a) and (c) to calculate the number of moles of NaOH which reacted with the ammonium sulphate.
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