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3 years ago

Explain 2 reasons why SI is easier to use than the English System

Chemistry

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11111nata11111 [884]3 years ago

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There's only one unit for each type of measurement in the SI. For example:

1)Regarding distance, in the SI there are meters and that's it; everything else is just a power of ten. On the other hand, the US Customary system has mils, inches, feet, yards, rods, furlongs, miles, nautical miles and leagues, with strange conversion factors between them all.

2)For volume, in the SI, there are liters and that's it; everything else is just a power of ten. On the other hand, the US Customary system has drams, teaspoons, tablespoons, ounces, gills, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, pecks, bushels, drums, beer barrels, liquid barrels, whiskey/kerosene barrels, oil barrels, cubic inches, cubic feet, cubic yards and I don't know of anyone who can remember the conversion factors for all those units! Oh--don't forget--a dry pint, quart, gallon or barrel is not the same thing as a fluid pint, quart, gallon or barrel, respectively.

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Explanation:

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Answer:

False

Explanation:

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Answer:

The new temperature of the nitrogen gas is 516.8 K or 243.8 C.

Explanation:

Gay-Lussac's law indicates that, as long as the volume of the container containing the gas is constant, as the temperature increases, the gas molecules move faster. Then the number of collisions with the walls increases, that is, the pressure increases. That is, the pressure of the gas is directly proportional to its temperature.

Gay-Lussac's law can be expressed mathematically as follows:

$\frac{P}{T} =k$

Where P = pressure, T = temperature, K = Constant

You want to study two different states, an initial state and a final state. You have a gas that is at a pressure P1 and at a temperature T1 at the beginning of the experiment. By varying the temperature to a new value T2, then the pressure will change to P2, and the following will be fulfilled:

$\frac{P1}{T1} =\frac{P2}{T2}$

In this case:

P1= 2 atm
T1= 50 C= 323 K (being 0 C= 273 K)
P2= 3.2 atm
T2= ?

Replacing:

$\frac{2 atm}{323 K} =\frac{3.2 atm}{T2}$

Solving:

$T2*\frac{2 atm}{323 K} =3.2 atm$

$T2=3.2 atm*\frac{323 K}{2 atm}$

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The new temperature of the nitrogen gas is 516.8 K or 243.8 C.

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Answer:

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The lethal dose 50 (LD50) for the dye is 5000 mg dye/ 1 kg body weight. The amount of dye that would be needed to reach the LD50 of a 70 kg person is:

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A gas is at a pressure of 4.30 atm. what is this pressure in kilopascals? in mm hg?

Monica [59]

Units to measure pressure are as follows
atm - atmospheric pressure units
kPa - kilo Pascals
mm Hg - milimeters Hg
conversion units are;
1 atm = 101 325 Pa
therefore 4.30 atm = 101 325 Pa / atm x 4.30 atm = 435.7 Pa

1 atm = 760.0 mm Hg
4.30 atm = 760.0 mm Hg / atm x 4.30 atm = 3268 mm Hg

answers are 435.7 Pa and 3268 mm Hg

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