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CHY2018 Gases Tutorial 4

A sample of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) occupies 210 L at 27oC at 1200 T. What
volume would it occupy at STP?

2.

What is the density of a gas that has a molar mass of 44.01 g/mol at STP?

3.

What is the volume of a balloon filled with 32.02 grams of Helium when the
atmospheric pressure is 722 torr and the temperature is 40o C?

4.

The Goodyear blimp must be inflated with Helium prior to a football game. Its
volume is 7601 ft3. How many grams of He are needed for a pressure of 740 torr
at 22o C? (1 ft3 = 28.3 L)

5.

A 0.723 g sample of a gas occupies 176 mL at 100.o C and 750. torr. What is its
molar mass?

6.

A 20.5 L bulb contains 0.200 moles of methane, 0.300 moles of hydrogen, and
0.400 moles of nitrogen at 20.0 o C. It is stinky and explosive. What is the
pressure inside the bulb? How much pressure does each of the three gases
contribute?

7.

One tank of gas contains 5.00 L of N2 at 32.0 atm. A second tank contains 3.00 L
of O2 at 24.0 atm. What pressure is attained when the valve between the tanks is
opened?

8.

Calculate the (a) pressure exerted by 5.00 moles of NH3 in a 1.00 L vessel at
25.0oC assuming ideal and non-ideal behavior. ( a = 4.22 L2 atm mol-2 and b =
3.707 x 10 -2 L-1 mol)

9.

Could 25g of Argon gas in vessel of volume 1 dm 3 exert a pressure of 2.0 bar at
30 oC if it behaved as a perfect gas? If not, what pressure would it exert? What
pressure would it exert if it behaved as a van der waal gas?

10.

The following data have been obtained for oxygen gas at 273.15 K.

11.

A gas mixture consists of 320 mg of methane, 175 mg of argon and 225 mg of

neon. The partial pressure of neon at 300 K is 66.5 Torr. Calculate (a) the volume
and (b) the total pressure of the mixture.

12.

At 300 K and 20 atm, the compression factor of a gas is 0.86. Calculate (a) the
volume occupied by 8.2 mmol of the gas under these conditions.

13.

A vessel of volume 22.4 dm3 contains 1.5 mol H2 and 2.5 mol N2 at 273.15 K.
Calculate a) the mole fraction of each component, b) their partial pressures, and c)
their total pressure.

14.

Using a suitable diagram, discuss how compression factor varies with temperature
and pressure.

15.

What is the root mean square velocity of Cl2 molecules at room T, 50.0oC?

16.

Calculate the ratio of the rate of effusion of NH 3 to that of SO3, at the same
temperature and pressure.

17.

A sample of F2, was found to effuse through a pinhole 10. 2 times as rapidly as the
same volume of unknown gas (at the same temperature and pressure). What is the
molecular weight of the unknown gas?

18.

When silver carbonate (Ag2CO3) is dissolved in pure deionized water at room

temperature, the concentration of Ag+ was found to be 2.3 10-4 mol/L.

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What is the solubility product (Ksp) of Ag2CO3?

[3]
If Ag2CO3 is dissolved in an aqueous solution containing sodium carbonate
(Na2CO3), at the same temperature, would the solubility product be
different? Briefly explain.
[3]
Given a titration of a strong acid weak base,

(i)
(ii)

draw a suitable titration curve.

[3]
and suggest an indicator that can be used to determine the equivalence
point. Explain your choice.
[3]
a. What is the solubility product and common ion effect?
[4]
b. What is the molar solubility of the PbCl 2 in water, given that the K sp
for PbCl2 is 1.6 10-5?

[4]

c. What would be the molar solubility of PbCl 2 in a 0.10 M Pb(NO3)2

solution
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Discuss Raoult's Law and how it applies to solutions in which the solute is nonvolatile.

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Describe with the aid of a diagram, the distillation of ethanol.

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L . atm / mol . K
cal / mol . K
J / mol . K
m3 . Pa / mol . K
L . torr / mol . K

0.08206
1.987
8.314
8.314
62.36