IB Chemistry HL 1.5 Stoichiometric Relationships Question Bank
Practise IB Chemistry HL 1.5 with evidence-led questions on stoichiometry, moles, equations, yields and quantitative analysis.
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2025
- Course
- Chemistry HL
- Level
- HL
Practise IB Chemistry HL 1.5 with evidence-led questions on stoichiometry, moles, equations, yields and quantitative analysis.
Alkanes are commonly occurring organic compounds.
The first four straight chain alkanes are gases at room temperature.

Boiling points of straight chain alkanes
Calculate the volume, in dm3, occupied by 6.45 g of propane gas at 100 kPa and 15∘C.
« Mr(C3H8)=44.11 » « n= » 0.146 «mol» «V =1000.146×8.31×288= » 3.49 «dm³»
Award [2] for correct final answer.
Accept answers in the range 3.49-3.59 «dm³».
Outline why the volume occupied by propane(g) at very high pressure is higher than the value calculated using PV=nRT.
not behaving as an ideal gas «at very high pressure»
ideal gas molecules have no volume
OR
volume of «propane» molecules is not negligible
Marking guidance:
Accept propane is a real gas for M1.
Two hydrides of nitrogen are ammonia and hydrazine, N2H4. One derivative of ammonia is methanamine whose molecular structure is shown below.

Calculate, showing your working, the mass of hydrazine needed to remove all the dissolved oxygen from 1000dm3 of the sample.
Calculate the volume, in dm3, of nitrogen formed under SATP conditions.
(The volume of 1 mol of gas =24.8dm3 at SATP.)
n(N2H4)=n(O2)=32.00 g mol−18.0 g=0.25 molvolume of nitrogen=0.25 mol×24.8 dm3 mol−1=6.2 dm3
Award [1] for the correct final answer.
A group of students investigated the rate of the reaction between aqueous sodium thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid according to the equation below.
The two reagents were rapidly mixed together in a beaker and placed over a mark on a piece of paper. The time taken for the precipitate of sulfur to obscure the mark when viewed through the reaction mixture was recorded.


Initially they measured out 10.0 cm3 of 0.500moldm−3 hydrochloric acid and then added 40.0 cm3 of 0.0200 moldmm−3 aqueous sodium thiosulfate. The mark on the paper was obscured 47 seconds after the solutions were mixed.
Another group suggested collecting the sulfur dioxide and drawing a graph of the volume of gas against time.
Calculate the volume of sulfur dioxide, in cm3, that the original reaction mixture would produce if it were collected at 1.00×105 Pa and 300 K .
Calculate the amount of sulfur dioxide:
n(Na2S2O3)=n(SO2)=0.0400×0.0200=0.000800 molV=PnRT=1050.000800×8.31×300=1.99×10−5 m3=19.9 cm3
Accept 20.0 cm3 if R=8.314 is used.
Award [2] for 17.9 cm3 or 19.2 cm3 when molar volume at STP/RTP is used.
If two factor-of-1000 errors produce the correct answer, award [1] not [3].
Deduct [1] for answers based on the amount of HCl, so the correct calculation scores [2 max].