POST UTME Oau Chemistry Past Questions And Answers
100cm3 of ethyne was mixed with 240cm3 of oxygen in a combustion chamber. What volume of carbon (iv) oxide is produced?
- A)100 cm3
- B) 24 cm3
- C) 138 cm3
- D) 192 cm3
Consider the following-reactions
(i) LiOH + CO\(_2\) \(\rightarrow\) Li\(_2\)CO\(_3\) + H\(_2\)O
(ii) 2H\(_2\) + O\(_2\) \(\rightarrow\) 2H\(_2\)O
(iii) 2Cu + O\(_2\) \(\rightarrow\) 2CuO
(iv) HCl + AgNO\(_3\) \(\rightarrow\) AgCl + HNO\(_3\)
Which of these reactions are redox reactions?
- A) (i) and (iii) only
- B) (i), (ii) and (iii) only
- C) (ii) and (iv) only
- D) (ii) and (iii) only
The functional group represented in the compound CH\(_3\)-CH\(_2\)-CH\(_2\)-CH\(_2\)-CH=O is
- A) Alkanone
- B) Alkanal
- C) Alkanol
- D) Alkanoate
Uranium-235 explodes when bombarded with a slow moving neutron according to the equation below:\(^{235}_{92}U + ^1_0n \rightarrow ^{94}_{36}Kr + Ba + 3^1_0n\)The atomic number and mass of Ba respectively are
- A) 46 and 126
- B) 36 and 116
- C) 56 and 139
- D) 66 and 146
In the electrolysis of copper (II) sulphate using copper electrodes, the processes that occur at the anode and cathode respectively are
- A) dissolution and evolution
- B) dissolution and deposition
- C) deposition and evolution
- D) evolution and deposition
A saturated solution of AgCl was found to have a concentration of 1.30 \(\times\) 10\(^{-5}\) moldm\(^{-3}\). The solubility product of AgCl therefore is
- A)1.30 \(\times\) 10\(^{-5}\) mol\(^2\)dm\(^{-6}\)
- B)2.60 \(\times\) 10\(^{-12}\) mol\(^2\)dm\(^{-6}\)
- C)1.30 \(\times\) 10\(^{-7}\) mol\(^2\)dm\(^{-6}\)
- D)1.69 \(\times\) 10\(^{-10}\) mol\(^2\)dm\(^{-6}\)
Which of the following compounds would you expect to show positive iodoform test? (i) Butanone
(ii) Propanoic acid
(iii) Ethanol
(iv) Benzaldehyde
(v) But-2-one
- A) (i) and (ii)
- B) (i) and (iii)
- C) (iv) and (v)
- D) (ii) and (iii)
All the following will liberate a gas when reacted with dilute hydrochloric acid except
- A) sodium tetraoxosulphate (VI) salt
- B) Sodium trioxocarbonate (IV) salt
- C) Sodium sulphide
- D) Sodium trioxonitrate (V)
What is the maximum volume of CO\(_2\) at s.t.p. that can be obtained when dilute hydrochloric acid is added to 10 grams of CaCO\(_3\)? [Ca = 40, C = 12, O = 16]
- A)2.24dm\(^3\)
- B)22.4dm\(^3\)
- C)0.224dm\(^3\)
- D)22.4cm\(^3\)
The concentration of a solution obtained by dissolving 0.53g of pure anhydrous Na\(_2\)CO\(_3\) in water to make 250 cm\(^3\) of solution is
- A)2.0 \(\times\) 10-5 moldm\(^{-3}\)
- B)2.1 g dm\(^{-3}\)
- C)2.0 \(\times\) 10-2 moldm\(^{-3}\)
- D)5.0 \(\times\) 10-3 moldm\(^{-3}\)

