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PVS THE TUTOR ZAMBIA

ONLINE SCHOOLS
CHEMISTRY 5124/5070
LESSON: METHODS OF PURIFICATION (TUTORIAL WORK) MCQS
1. A blue solid, X, is soluble in water. Which method is used to obtain pure solid X
from an aqueous solution?
A. chromatography
B. crystallisation
C. filtration
D. neutralisation
2. A mixture is separated using the apparatus shown

What is the mixture?


A. aqueous copper chloride and copper
B. aqueous copper chloride and sodium chloride
C. ethane and methane
D. ethanol and water
3. Ethanol is made by fermentation. How is ethanol obtained from the fermentation
mixture?
A. chromatography
B. crystallisation
C. electrolysis
D. fractional distillation
4. Alcohol and water are completely miscible. This means when mixed together
they form only one liquid layer. Which method is used to separate alcohol from
water?
A. crystallisation
B. filtration
C. fractional distillation
D. precipitation
5. Which two methods can be used to separate a salt from its solution in water?
1 crystallisation
2 decanting
3 distillation
4 filtration
A. 1 and 2 B. 1 and 3 C. 2 and 3 D. 3 and 4
6. The diagram shows a method for separating a substance that contains X and Y

Which types of substance can be separated as shown?


A. compounds
B. elements
C. mixtures
D. molecules
7. Which method is most suitable to obtain zinc carbonate from a suspension of
zinc carbonate in water?
A. crystallisation
B. distillation
C. evaporation
D. filtration
8. Methanol, CH3OH, and ethanol, C2H5OH, are miscible liquids. Which diagram
shows apparatus that is used to obtain methanol from a mixture of ethanol and
methanol?

9. A mixture of ethanol and methanol are separated by fractional distillation. This


method of separation depends on a difference in property X of these two
alcohols. What is property X?
A. boiling point
B. colour
C. melting point
D. solubility
10. A fruit drink coloured orange contains a dissolved mixture of red and
yellow colouring agents. One of these colouring agents is suspected of being
illegal. Which method could be used to show the presence of this illegal colouring
agent?
A. chromatography
B. distillation
C. evaporation
D. filtration

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