Given constant volume, what pressure would 50atm of gas at 0 C, develop at a temperature of 300 C?

1 Answer
Nov 14, 2015

Gay Lusaac's law holds that at constant volume, (P1T1=P2T2) (i.e. pressure is proportional to temperature at constant volume).

Explanation:

So, P2 = P1T2T1 = 50.0atm×273K573K =

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This is reasonable on the basis that we would expect a given quantity of gas to exert less pressure at lower temperature. Note that I converted the temperature to the Kelvin scale in order to avoid multiplying by 0.