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Tutorial 4 Gases

This document is a tutorial sheet for a chemistry course at The Copperbelt University, focusing on gas laws and related calculations. It includes various problems related to Boyle’s law, Charles’s law, Avogadro’s law, and practical applications involving gas properties and behaviors. The problems cover topics such as pressure conversions, gas volumes, densities, and molar masses.

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Tutorial 4 Gases

This document is a tutorial sheet for a chemistry course at The Copperbelt University, focusing on gas laws and related calculations. It includes various problems related to Boyle’s law, Charles’s law, Avogadro’s law, and practical applications involving gas properties and behaviors. The problems cover topics such as pressure conversions, gas volumes, densities, and molar masses.

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THE COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
CH110: TUTORIAL SHEET 4

GASES

Term I (2024-2025)

1. What are Boyle’s law, Charles’s law, and Avogadro’s law? What plots do you make to
show a linear relationship for each law?

2. A high-performance road bicycle tire is inflated to a total pressure of 132 psi. What
is this pressure in mmHg?

3. A woman has an initial lung volume of 2.75 L, which is filled with air at an
atmospheric pressure of 1.02 atm. If she increases her lung volume to 3.25 L
without inhaling any additional air, what is the pressure in her lungs?

4. A gas in a cylinder with a moveable piston has an initial volume of 88.2 mL. If we
heat the gas from 35 °C to 155 °C, what is its final volume (in mL)?

5. A male athlete in a kinesiology research study has a lung volume of 6.15 L during a
deep inhalation. At this volume, his lungs contain 0.254 moles of air. During
exhalation, his lung volume decreases to 2.55 L. How many moles of gas did the
athlete exhale? Assume constant temperature and pressure.

6. Calculate the volume occupied by 0.845 mol of nitrogen gas at a pressure of 1.37
atm and a temperature of 315 K.

7. Calculate the density of nitrogen gas at 125 °C and a pressure of 755 mmHg.

8. Arrange the following gases in order of increasing density at STP: Ne, Cl 2, F2, and O2.

9. A sample of gas has a mass of 0.311 g. Its volume is 0.225 L at a temperature of 55 °C


and a pressure of 886 mmHg. Find its molar mass.
10. A 1.00 L mixture of helium, neon, and argon has a total pressure of 662 mmHg at
298K. If the partial pressure of helium is 341 mmHg and the partial pressure of neon
is 112 mmHg, what mass of argon is present in the mixture?

11. A 12.5 L scuba diving tank contains a helium–oxygen (heliox) mixture made up of
24.2 g of He and 4.32 g of O2 at 298 K. Calculate the mole fraction and partial
pressure of each component in the mixture and the total pressure of the mixture.

12. In order to determine the rate of photosynthesis, the oxygen gas emitted by an
aquatic plant is collected over water at a temperature of 293 K and a total pressure
of 755.2 mmHg. Over a specific time period, a total of 1.02 L of gas is collected. What
mass of oxygen gas (in grams) is formed?

13. A steel tank has a volume of 438 L and is filled with 0.885 kg of O 2. Calculate the
pressure of O2 at 21oC.

14. To apply a green chemistry approach, a chemical engineer uses waste CO 2 from a
manufacturing process, instead of chlorofluorocarbons, as a “blowing agent” in the
production of polystyrene containers. Find the density (in g/L) of CO 2 and the
number of molecules per liter (a) at STP (0oC and 1 atm) and (b) at room conditions
(20oC and 1.00 atm).

15. Copper dispersed in absorbent beds is used to react with oxygen impurities in the
ethylene used for producing polyethylene. The beds are regenerated when hot H 2
reduces the metal oxide, forming the pure metal and H2O. On a laboratory scale,
what volume of H2 at 765 torr and 225oC is needed to reduce 35.5 g of copper(II)
oxide?

16. A flammable gas made up only of carbon and hydrogen is found to effuse through a
porous barrier in 3.50 min. Under the same conditions of temperature and pressure,
it takes an equal volume of chlorine gas 7.34 min to effuse through the same barrier.
Calculate the molar mass of the unknown gas, and suggest what this gas might be.

17. Calculate the pressure exerted by 0.5000 mole of N2 in a 1.0000-L container at


25.0oC (a) using the ideal gas law. (b) using the van der Waals equation. (c) Compare
the results.

18. A 1.00-L vessel contains 0.215 mole of N2 gas and 0.0118 mole of H2 gas at 25.5°C.
Determine the partial pressure of each component and the total pressure in the
vessel.

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