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September 16, 2019
Dr. Rashmi Venkateswaran
CHM 1301
GENERAL CHEMISTRY: QUIZ 1
STUDENT NAME
STUDENT ID. No.
There are 7 pages in this quiz including the cover page, equations and the periodic
table.
You may tear off the last three pages (carefully).
Check and ensure you have answered each question before handing in the quiz.
PLEASE use a pen!! Box, underline or highlight your FINAL answer.
The quiz is out of 15 points with a maximum of 18 points possible
CLEARLY explain your thinking…
USE UNITS!

(2) The metal vanadium can be extracted from its oxide, vanadium (V) oxide, by heating it in the
presence of liquid calcium metal. The other product is solid calcium oxide.
Write the chemical formulae for all the substances in the question above (4). Indicate
which substance is a product (formed) and which is a reactant (used).
(2.5) The antiperspirant aluminium chloride is made by reacting solid aluminium oxide, solid
carbon and chlorine gas. Carbon monoxide gas is also produced in the reaction.
Write the chemical formulae for all the substances in the questions above (5). Indicate
which substance is a product (formed) and which is a reactant (used).
(1.5) The psychoactive street drug sold as MDMA (“ecstasy”), C
11
H
15
NO
2
, undergoes a series of
reactions in the body; the net result of these reactions is the oxidation of aqueous MDMA by
oxygen gas to produce carbon dioxide gas, liquid water, and an aqueous solution of urea,
CH
4
N
2
O.
Write the chemical formulae for all the substances in the questions above (3). Indicate
which substance is a product (formed) and which is a reactant (used).

(3)