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The document provides sample chemistry questions related to special effects used in movies. It includes questions about the production of colored fire using different metal salts, the chemical reaction and components used to make fake movie blood, oxidation states, and limiting reactants in a chemical equation.

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Movies Sample Questions (Key)

The document provides sample chemistry questions related to special effects used in movies. It includes questions about the production of colored fire using different metal salts, the chemical reaction and components used to make fake movie blood, oxidation states, and limiting reactants in a chemical equation.

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WUCT: Chemistry of Movies Sample Questions

1. Colored fire is commonly used in movies as a special effect. In order to make different
colors of fire, different metals must be put in the fire. The energy from the fire causes the
electrons to move up to orbitals of higher energy, and then light of a certain frequency is
produced giving way to different colors as electrons relax back down to their ground
states.

a. Different metals produce different colors because of their differing ground state
electron configurations and emission spectrums. Give the ground state noble gas
electron configuration for lithium and barium.
Lithium’s ground state configuration is 1𝑠 2 2𝑝 and Barium’s ground state configuration is
[Xe]6𝑠 2 .

b. Lithium gives a red color in a flame, whereas barium produces a green color.
Which energy change (lithium or barium) from the ground state to the various
excited states is greater?
Since red has a longer wavelength than green light in the visible spectrum, the energy
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change must be greater for barium due to the equation 𝐸 = (the shorter the wavelength, the
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larger the energy).

OR

Since red has a shorter frequency than green light in the visible spectrum, the energy change
must be greater for barium due to the equation 𝐸 = ℎ𝜈 (the higher the frequency, the larger the
energy).

c. The energy change between lithium’s first excited state and ground state is 1.81
eV. Calculate the wavelength (in nm) of the photon that is released as the electron
relaxes to the ground state.
%& ℎ𝑐 (6.626 ∙10−34 𝐽𝑠)(3.0 ∙108 𝑚 𝑠) 1 𝑒𝑉
𝐸= →𝜆= = ∙ = 686 𝑛𝑚
' 𝐸 1.81 𝑒𝑉 1.602∗10−19 𝐽
d. Determine which orbital filling rule(s) is broken by each of the following
configurations for Barium:
i. [Xe] 6𝑠 2 ; Total spin = 1
ii. [Xe] 7𝑠 2 ; Total spin = 0
iii. [Xe] 6𝑠 1 5𝑑 1 ; Total spin = 0
i. Pauli Exclusion Rule
ii. Ground State rule
iii. Ground State rule and Hund’s rule

e. Which color flame is hotter: blue or red? Explain.


The blue flame is hotter. Since blue light has a higher frequency and energy than red
light, the blue flame must be hotter than the red.

Alternate solution: A blue flame represents complete combustion as opposed to a red flame,
which means that the blue flame would create more heat than the red flame.

2. Fake blood is often used in movies for fighting scenes. The unbalanced equation for the
chemical reaction that makes fake blood is FeCl3+KSCN → K3[Fe(SCN)6] + KCl.

a. Write the balanced equation of this chemical reaction.

FeCl3+6KSCN → K3[Fe(SCN)6] + 3KCl

b. If you start with 10.00 g of FeCl3 and 40.00 g of KSCN, what is the limiting reactant?
1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L
10.00𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L ∙ = 0.0617 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L
162.2 𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L

1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐾𝑆𝐶𝑁
40.00𝑔 𝐾𝑆𝐶𝑁 ∙ = 0.412 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐾𝑆𝐶𝑁
97.18 𝑔 𝐾𝑆𝐶𝑁

1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L
0.412 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐾𝑆𝐶𝑁 ∙ = 0.0686 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L
6 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐾𝑆𝐶𝑁
This means that 0.0686 𝑚𝑜𝑙 of FeCl3 is required to react with all of the KSCN. Since the
mole of FeCl3 required to react with all of the KSCN is greater than the given amount of
mole FeCl3, FeCl3 is the limiting reactant.
c. How many grams of KCl would be produced with the starting conditions given in part b?

1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L 3 𝑚𝑜𝑙 KCl 74.55 𝑔 KCl


10.00𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L ∙ ∙ ∙ = 13.79 𝑔 KCl
162.2 𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L 1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L 1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 KCl

d. A chemistry student performed this experiment with the values in part b and calculated a
percent yield of 65%. How many grams of K3[Fe(SCN)6] did they produce?

1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L 1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐾L Fe SCN W 521.6 𝑔 𝐾L Fe SCN W


10.00𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ 65% = 20.90 𝑔 𝐾L Fe SCN W
162.2 𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L 1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐹𝑒𝐶𝑙L 1 𝑚𝑜𝑙 𝐾L Fe SCN W

e. What is the oxidation number of Fe in the compound K3[Fe(SCN)6]?


The S is -2, C is +4, N is -3, and K is +1. The whole compound is neutral, so Fe must
have an oxidation number of +3.

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