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. b) Calculate the number of moles of nitrogen absorbed if the person breathes air at a pressure of 50. bar. c) Assume that a diver has been breathing compressed air at 50. bar of pressure and is then suddenly brought to sea level. What volume of N2 gas is released as bubbles in their bloodstream? For this problem you can assume N2 is an ideal gas.
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.
b) Calculate the number of moles of nitrogen absorbed if the person breathes air at a pressure of 50. bar.
c) Assume that a diver has been breathing compressed air at 50. bar of pressure and is then suddenly brought to sea level. What volume of N2 gas is released as bubbles in their bloodstream? For this problem you can assume N2 is an ideal gas.
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