A gas canister can tolerate internal pressures up to 210 atmospheres. If a 2.0 L canister holding 3.5 moles of gas is heated to 1350° C, will the canister explode?
1 Answer
Mar 5, 2016
The canister will explode.
Explanation:
This appears to be an Ideal Gas Law problem.
The Ideal Gas Law is
#color(blue)(|bar(ul(PV = nRT)|)# ,
where
#P# is the pressure#V# is the volume#n# is the number of moles#R# is the Universal Gas Constant#T# is the temperature
We can rearrange the Ideal Gas Law to get
This exceeds the burst pressure of the canister.
The canister will explode!