During the past two million years, glaciers have shaped and reshaped the surface of Ohio several times. These continental masses of ice affected as much as two-thirds of the state. Moving from the north and northwest, glaciers have scraped and flattened the landscape. Often more than a mile thick, they smoothed existing hills and filled valleys with enormous amounts of rocks, gravel, and smaller particles. Through these actions, glaciers have had a very important impact on the agriculture of Ohio. Their activity has been felt in two noticeable ways: shaping the ground upon which people work and build, and forming the soils that cover that ground.

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A 41.1 g sample of solid CO2 (dry ice) is added to a container at a temperature of 100 K with a volume of 3.4 L.A. If the contai

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Answer:

Approximately 6.81 × 10⁵ Pa.

Assumption: carbon dioxide behaves like an ideal gas.

Explanation:

Look up the relative atomic mass of carbon and oxygen on a modern periodic table:

C: 12.011;
O: 15.999.

Calculate the molar mass of carbon dioxide $\rm CO_2$ :

$M\!\left(\mathrm{CO_2}\right) = 12.011 + 2\times 15.999 = 44.009\; \rm g \cdot mol^{-1}$ .

Find the number of moles of molecules in that $41.1\;\rm g$ sample of $\rm CO_2$ :

$n = \dfrac{m}{M} = \dfrac{41.1}{44.009} \approx 0.933900\; \rm mol$ .

If carbon dioxide behaves like an ideal gas, it should satisfy the ideal gas equation when it is inside a container:

$P \cdot V = n \cdot R \cdot T$ ,

where

$P$ is the pressure inside the container.
$V$ is the volume of the container.
$n$ is the number of moles of particles (molecules, or atoms in case of noble gases) in the gas.
$R$ is the ideal gas constant.
$T$ is the absolute temperature of the gas.

Rearrange the equation to find an expression for $P$ , the pressure inside the container.

$\displaystyle P = \frac{n \cdot R \cdot T}{V}$ .

Look up the ideal gas constant in the appropriate units.

$R = 8.314 \times 10^3\; \rm L \cdot Pa \cdot K^{-1} \cdot mol^{-1}$ .

Evaluate the expression for $P$ :

$\begin{aligned} P &=\rm \frac{0.933900\; mol \times 8.314 \times 10^3 \; L \cdot Pa \cdot K^{-1} \cdot mol^{-1} \times 298\; K}{3.4\; L} \cr &\approx \rm 6.81\times 10^5\; Pa \end{aligned}$ .