What volume is occupied by a 2mol quantity of oxygen, nitrogen, and fluorine gases, at 300K under a pressure of 1.3atm?

1 Answer
Sep 8, 2017

Approx. 40L..........

Explanation:

We use the old ideal gas law.....

V=nRTP

We must simply KNOW that oxygen, and nitrogen, and fluorine, and chlorine, are DIATOMIC gases, i.e. X2...(this is the next refinement of this problem, they could have mentioned a mass of 64g....)

And so.......

V=2mol×0.0821LatmK1mol1×300K1.3atm

=??L....Do the units in the calculation cancel out to give an answer in litres? They should, and if they don't then somewhere we have made an error.