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Hydrochloric Acid

The document describes an experiment where hydrochloric acid is reacted with magnesium carbonate from indigestion tablets. It produces carbon dioxide gas which causes fizzing. The fizzing stops once the magnesium carbonate is used up. Magnesium chloride and carbon dioxide are produced. Hydrochloric acid is needed in the stomach to digest food.

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Hydrochloric Acid

The document describes an experiment where hydrochloric acid is reacted with magnesium carbonate from indigestion tablets. It produces carbon dioxide gas which causes fizzing. The fizzing stops once the magnesium carbonate is used up. Magnesium chloride and carbon dioxide are produced. Hydrochloric acid is needed in the stomach to digest food.

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13. Hydrochloric acid is a strong acid.

(a) Winston used universal indicator solution to find the pH of some


hydrochloric acid.

(i) Suggest the colour of the mixture of universal indicator solution and
the hydrochloric acid.
13ai

1 mark

(ii) Suggest the pH of the hydrochloric acid.


13aii

1 mark

(b) Indigestion can be caused when too much hydrochloric acid is produced in
the stomach.
Magnesium carbonate can be used to treat indigestion.

Winston crushed some indigestion tablets containing magnesium carbonate.


He added them to hydrochloric acid in a test-tube. The mixture fizzed.

hydrochloric acid

crushed indigestion
tablet

The word equation for the reaction is shown below.

magnesium + hydrochloric → magnesium + carbon + water


carbonate acid chloride dioxide

(i) Use the word equation to explain why the mixture fizzed when the
reaction took place.

13bi

1 mark

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(ii) Winston continued to add crushed tablets to the acid until the
mixture stopped fizzing.
Why did the fizzing stop?

13bii

1 mark

(c) When magnesium carbonate reacts with hydrochloric acid,


magnesium chloride is formed.

Which two words describe magnesium chloride?


Tick the two correct boxes.

a compound a mixture

an element a salt 13c

1 mark

a metal a solvent 13c

1 mark

(d) It is important that the hydrochloric acid in the stomach is not completely
neutralised by indigestion tablets.

Why is hydrochloric acid needed in the stomach?

13d

1 mark

maximum 7 marks
Total
KS3/04/Sc/Tier 3–6/P2 27

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