Answer: The partial pressure of Xenon in a container filled with a mixture of helium, Xenon, and neon gases and a total pressure inside the container is 1,788 mmHg with the pressure of the helium gas as 760 mmHg, the pressure of the neon gas as 200 mmHg is 828 mmHg
Explanation:
NOTE :
Dalton's law of partial pressures states that in a mixture of gases the pressure exerted by each gas is the same as that which it would exert if it alone occupied the container.
How to determine the partial pressure
Total pressure = Partial pressure of Neon + Partial pressure of Xenon + Partial pressure of helium
Partial pressure of Xenon = ? mmHg
Partial pressure of Helium = 760 mmHg
Partial pressure of Neon = 200 mmHg
Total pressure of gases = 1, 788 mmHg
Partial pressure of Xenon = Total pressure - Partial pressure of Helium - Partial pressure of Neon
Partial pressure of Xenon = 1, 788 - 760 -200
Partial pressure of Xenon = 1,788 - 960
= 828 mmHg
Thus, the partial pressure of Xenon is 828 mmHg
