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Chapter 9 Occurrence and Extraction of Metals

A. Multiple Choice Questions 3. (a) Liquid at room temperature and

pressure, expands on heating, does
1. B. Iron; Haematite not adhere to glass
2. B. Electrical and electronic (b) Easily malleable, non-toxic,
components corrosion resistant
3. A. Zinc (c) Strong, malleable, corrosion
4. B. (1) and (3) only resistant and cheap
5. C. (d) Very high melting point, glows a
white light at high temperature

4. (a) Metal A
Cooking pans should have good
thermal conductivity and must be
resistant to chemical attack and heat.
A has good thermal conductivity and
does not react with water.
(b) Metal E
6. C. The rate of the reaction
Sheets for roofing should have very
7. B s; s; g
good strength and must be resistant
8. D. YWZX to water. E has very good strength
9. C. Containers of soft drink; and does not react with water.
Plastics or glass (c) Metal D
Soft drink cans should have good
B. Fill in the Blanks strength, light and must be resistant
to water and chemical attack. D has
1. corrosion
good strength, low density and does
2. heating metal oxides alone, carbon
not react with water.
reduction, electrolysis
3. reduce, reuse, recycle, replace
5  7. HKCEE Questions
C. Comprehensive Questions
8. Yes. All Group I metals are highly reactive.
1. Price, availability and properties Only electrolysis is powerful enough to
extract them from their ores.
2. The abundance of the metal in the Earth’s
crust, the cost of mining ores of the metal
and the cost of extracting the metal from
its ores.

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9. (a) Brownish black powder changes to
silvery white solid.
2Ag2O(s)  4Ag(s) + O2(g)
(b) Colourless liquid decreases in
volume. Silvery white solid deposits
on cathode (negative electrode) and
colourless gas is formed at anode
(positive electrode).
2MgO(s)  2Mg(s) + O2(g)
(c) The solid changes from black to
reddish brown. Colourless gas with
choking smell is given out.
2CuS(s) + 3O2(g)
 2CuO(s) + 2SO2(g)
2CuO(s) + C(s)
 2Cu(s) + CO2(g)
10. The conditions for the reaction to occur/
The rate of the reaction / The heat change
of the reaction (Any two)
11. (a) 2FeO + C  2Fe + CO2
(b) 2MgO  2Mg + O2
12. (a) 2Na2O(s)  4Na(s) + O2(g)
(b) 2Fe2O3(s) + 3C(s)
 4Fe(s) + 3CO2(g)
(c) ZnS(s) + O2(g)
 Zn(s) + SO2(g)
13. HKCEE Question
14. PbS(s) + O2(g)  Pb(s) + SO2(g)
SO2 + H2O (l) H2SO3(aq)
15. (a) Heat the lithium oxide to molten
state and then carry out electrolysis
to extract lithium metal (i.e. carry
out electrolysis for molten lithium
oxide).
(b) 2Li2O(l)  4Li(s) + O2(g)
(c) At the negative electrode, silvery
solid is formed. At the positive
electrode, colourless gas is formed.
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16. (a) White precipitate is formed.
AgNO3(aq) + NaCl(aq)
 AgCl(s) + NaNO3(aq)
(b) Colourless gas bubbles are given
out.
CaCO3(s)  CaO(s) + CO2(g)
(c) Colourless gas bubbles are given
out.
CaCO3(s) + 2HCl(aq)
 CaCl2(aq) + CO2(g) + H2O(l)
(d) Lime water turns milky.
Ca(OH)2(aq) + CO2(g)
 CaCO3(s) + H2O(l)
17. Ease of extraction of metals, availability
of raw materials
18. C > B > A > E > D
C was discovered first because its
extraction method is simple and does not
need any chemicals and heat.
D was discovered last because its
extraction needs electricity which was
discovered not long ago.
B was discovered second because its
extraction method needs heating only.
A was discovered earlier than E. This is
because although they are extracted by the
same method. The abundance of A is
larger than that of E.