All categories

3 years ago

Why is the atmospheric pressure lower on a high mountain peak than at sea level

1 answer:

4 0

The earths gravity attracts the molecules and collects the most near the surface. They all have weight and therefore have more pressure at the surface, as well. As you go higher, the attraction becomes less and these molecules some times fly off into space. This layer of equilibrium has the least of weight or pressure.

The various pressures are measured by precision instruments called barometers or pressure sensors and expressed in inches of mercury or millibars. Air has a weight too, although not very much, If you "pile" the air mile high, the bottom pressure is heavier because of all the air sitting on top of it, therefore the pressure decreases with altitude, because there is less air "piled up" 
An analogy would be the same with water.

Planes have these instruments that tells the crew the altitude above sea level they are at when flying.

You might be interested in

What happens in a subduction zone?

Soloha48 [4]

It’s been awhile but I think it is c

3 0

3 years ago

What ion depolarizes the membrane when it diffuses into the axon of a neuron?

Agata [3.3K]

Answer:Sodium ions

Explanation:

The membrane potential of most cells is negative, when sodium ions enters the cells, it can reverse the polarity and makes it positively charge.

7 0

3 years ago

What type of elements make up an ionic compound

xenn [34]

Answer:

Those that “prefer” A charge; the Halogens and Chalcogens are good examples - Halogen MEANS salt forming, and even organic compounds can form salts; look up “tropylium ion”.

Explanation:

5 0

3 years ago

Various members of a class of compounds, alkenes, react with hydrogen to produce a corresponding alkane. Termed hydrogenation, t

Vitek1552 [10]

Answer: The mass of decane produced is $1.743\times 10^2g$

Explanation:

To calculate the number of moles, we use the equation:

$\text{Number of moles}=\frac{\text{Given mass}}{\text{Molar mass}}$ ......(1)

Mass of hydrogen gas = 2.45 g

Molar mass of hydrogen gas = 2 g/mol

Putting values in equation 1:, we get:

$\text{Moles of }H_2=\frac{2.45g}{2g/mol}=1.225mol$

The chemical equation for the hydrogenation of decene follows:

$C_{10}H_{20}(l)+H_2(g)\rightarrow C_{10}H_{22}(s)$

As, decene is present in excess. So, it is considered as an excess reagent.

Thus, hydrogen gas is a limiting reagent because it limits the formation of products.

By Stoichiometry of the reaction:

1 mole of hydrogen gas produces 1 mole of decane.

So, 1.225 moles of hydrogen gas will produce = $\frac{1}{1}\times 1.225=1.225mol$ of decane

Now, calculating the mass of decane by using equation 1, we get:

Moles of decane = 1.225 mol

Molar mass of decane = 142.30 g/mol

Putting values in equation 1, we get:

$1.225mol=\frac{\text{Mass of decane}}{142.30g/mol}\\\\\text{Mass of carbon dioxide}=(1.225mol\times 142.30g/mol)=174.3g=1.743\times 10^2g$

Hence, the mass of decane produced is $1.743\times 10^2g$

5 0

3 years ago

I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST TO BEST AND MOST THOROUGH ANSWER!

andrew11 [14]

At 100 feet, the diver is under about 4 atmospheres pressure. If she is free diving, her lungs will be compressed to about 1/4 their size on the surface (with some movement of the major abdominal organs). If she is scuba diving, the air which she is breathing is also at 4 atmospheres and there is no problem. (The non-gas spaces in the body are not-compressible and are unaffected.) The only problems she has to concern herself with are the beginnings to nitrogen narcosis and the nitrogen which is dissolving (Henry's law) into her body tissues. On the way up, she also has to remember that the air in her lungs will expand by a factor of 4 and she better exhale! Hope this helps you

7 0

3 years ago