Chemistry: The Central Science (13th Edition)
Chemistry: The Central Science (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780321910417
Author: Theodore E. Brown, H. Eugene LeMay, Bruce E. Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew E. Stoltzfus
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 15, Problem 53E

The discovery of hafnium, element number 72, provided a controversial episode in chemistry. G. Urbain, a French chemist, claimed in 1911 to have isolated an element number 72 from a sample of rare earth (elements 58-71) compounds. However, Niels Bohr believed that hafnium was more likely to be found along with zirconium than with the rare earths. D. Coster and G. von Hevesy, working in Bohr's laboratory in Copenhagen, showed in 1922 that element 72 was present in a sample of Norwegian zircon, an ore of zirconium. (The name hafnium comes from the Latin name for Copenhagen, Hafnia).

  1. How would you use electron configuration arguments to justify Bohr's prediction?
  2. Zirconium, hafnium's neighbor in group 4B, can be produced as a metal by reduction of solid ZrCL4 with molten sodium metal. Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction. Is this an oxidation-reduction reaction? If yes, what is reduced and what is oxidized?
  3. Solid zirconium dioxide, Zr02, reacts with chlorine gas in the presence of carbon. The products of the reaction are ZrO2 and two gases, CO2 and CO in the ratio 1:2. Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction. Starting with a 55.4-g sample of ZrO2, calculate the mass of ZrCL4 formed, assuming that ZrO2is the limiting reagent and assuming 100% yield.
  4. Using their electron configurations, account for the fact thatZr and Hf form chlorides MCl4and oxides MO2.

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