Question

I have a 5 liter container of oxygen (O 2 ) gas at 2.0 atm and 25 0 C, what mass of gas is inside this

Answer 1

Answer:

$m=13.1gO_2$

Explanation:

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In this case, by using the ideal gas equation, we first compute the moles of oxygen at the given volume, pressure and temperature:

$PV=nRT\\\\n=\frac{PV}{RT}=\frac{2.0atm*5L}{0.082\frac{atm*L}{mol*K}(25+273.15)K} =0.41mol$

Then, since molar mass of gaseous oxygen is 32 g/mol, we compute the contained mass in grams as shown below:

$m=0.41mol*\frac{32g}{1mol}\\\\m=13.1gO_2$

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