The average human body with a body weight of 70. kg has a blood volume of 5.00 L. The Henry’s law constant for the solubility of N2 in H2O is 9.04 x 10^4 bar at 298 K. For this problem you may assume that this is also the Henry’s law constant for blood and that blood has the same density as water. a) Calculate the number of moles of nitrogen absorbed in this amount of blood, when a person breathes air at sea level. Air is composed of 80.% nitrogen.

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The average human body with a body weight of 70. kg has a blood volume of 5.00 L. The Henry’s law constant for the solubility of N2 in H2O is

9.04 x 10^4 bar at 298 K. For this problem you may assume that this is also the Henry’s law constant for blood and that blood has the same density as water.

a) Calculate the number of moles of nitrogen absorbed in this amount of blood, when a person breathes air at sea level. Air is composed of 80.% nitrogen.

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