General Chemistry

Gas Laws
100 mL of a gas are 100 mL of a gas at a
enclosed in a cylinder pressure of 100 mmHg
under a pressure of 760 will occupy what volume
torr. What will be the at 760 torr?
volume if the pressure is
increased to 1520 torr?
• A certain gas occupies a • The volume of a gas at
volume of 100 mL at a 20oC is 100 mL. What is
temperature of 20oC. the volume at 100oC?
What will be its volume
at 10oC if the pressure
remains constant?
• A gas occupies 1 L at a • Calculate the pressure
temperature of 27oC required to compress 2
and 500 torr pressure, L of a gas at 700 torr
Calculate the volume of pressure and 20oC into
the gas if the a container of 0.1 L
temperature is changed capacity at a
to 60oC and the temperature of -150oC.
pressure is 700 torr.
• 750 mL of a gas at 300 • A steel cylinder
torr pressure at 50oC is containing 10 L of a gas
heated until the volume at a pressure of 4 atm
of a gas is 200 mL at a and temperature of
pressure of 760 torr. 40oC is heated to 70oC.
What is the final What is the new
temperature of the gas? pressure?
• What is the value of R if
P is in lb/ft2, V in ft3, n
in lbmole and T in
Rankine?
• How many moles of
hydrogen gas are
present in a 50 L steel
cylinder if the pressure
is 10 atm at 27oC?
• 6 grams of He gas are • A 250 mL sample of a
pumped into a 0.5 L gas weighs 0.542 g at
cylinder at 60oC. What 100oC and 650 mmHg.
is the pressure of the What is the molecular
gas? weight of the gas?
• Suppose 100 mL of • What is the partial
oxygen were collected pressure of each gas in
over water in the the mixture which
laboratory at a pressure contains 40 g He, 56 g
of 700 torr and a N2, and 16 g O2 if the
temperature of 20oC. total pressure is 5 atm?
What is the volume of
the dry gas at STP?
Vapor pressure of water
at 20oC is 17.5 torr
• How fast is hydrogen • Calculate the volume of
gas diffusing compared oxygen necessary to
with oxygen gas? burn 50 L of CO?
• In the Ostwald process for the commercial
preparation of nitric acid, ammonia is burned
in the presence of Pt catalyst according to the
equation 4 NH3 + 5 O2  4 NO + 6 H2O. What
volume of oxygen is required and what
volume of nitric oxide (NO) is formed in the
combustion of 500 L of ammonia?
• What volume of • What volume of
hydrogen at STP is ammonia (NH3) can be
produced as sulfuric obtained when steam is
acid acts on 120 g of passed over 4000 g of
metallic calcium? calcium cyanamide
(CaCN2)?
• CaCN2 + 3 H2O  2 NH3
+ CaCO3