A sample containing 17.5 moles of carbon monoxide (CO) has an initial volume of 22.4 L. What is the final volume, in liters, when each of the following occurs and pressure and the temperature do not change? a) A leak allows one quarter of the CO molecules to escape from the container with 18.0 moles of CO. b) Another 9.25 moles of CO gas are added to the container with the 18.0 moles of CO gas already in it.
Ideal and Real Gases
Ideal gases obey conditions of the general gas laws under all states of pressure and temperature. Ideal gases are also named perfect gases. The attributes of ideal gases are as follows,
Gas Laws
Gas laws describe the ways in which volume, temperature, pressure, and other conditions correlate when matter is in a gaseous state. The very first observations about the physical properties of gases was made by Robert Boyle in 1662. Later discoveries were made by Charles, Gay-Lussac, Avogadro, and others. Eventually, these observations were combined to produce the ideal gas law.
Gaseous State
It is well known that matter exists in different forms in our surroundings. There are five known states of matter, such as solids, gases, liquids, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate. The last two are known newly in the recent days. Thus, the detailed forms of matter studied are solids, gases and liquids. The best example of a substance that is present in different states is water. It is solid ice, gaseous vapor or steam and liquid water depending on the temperature and pressure conditions. This is due to the difference in the intermolecular forces and distances. The occurrence of three different phases is due to the difference in the two major forces, the force which tends to tightly hold molecules i.e., forces of attraction and the disruptive forces obtained from the thermal energy of molecules.
A sample containing 17.5 moles of carbon monoxide (CO) has an initial volume of 22.4 L. What is
the final volume, in liters, when each of the following occurs and pressure and the temperature do
not change?
a) A leak allows one quarter of the CO molecules to escape from the container with 18.0 moles
of CO.
b) Another 9.25 moles of CO gas are added to the container with the 18.0 moles of CO gas
already in it.
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