Ammonia gas decomposes to form nitrogen and hydrogen gases.
NH3(g) → N2(g) + 3H2(g)
If the nitrogen gas is collected in a rigid 2 liter metal cylinder at 22oC at 2000 kPa pressure, how many moles of nitrogen gas (N2) does the cylinder contain?
Question 2 options:


13.5 moles


1.63 moles


142 moles


182 moles

Respuesta :

This problem is providing the volume, pressure and temperature at which nitrogen gas is contained in a metallic cylinder. Thus the moles present in there are required and found to be 1.63 mol after the following calculations.

Ideal gas

In chemistry, volume-temperature-mole-pressure behavior of gases can be studied at basic level with the ideal gas equation, relating these variables and the universal gas constant. In such a way, we can write:

[tex]PV=nRT[/tex]

Where we want to solve for n as the moles of the gas:

[tex]n=\frac{PV}{RT}[/tex]

Whereas the pressure should be in atmospheres and the temperature in kelvins as we use 0.08206 as R. Hence, we proceed as follows:

[tex]n=\frac{2000kPa*\frac{1atm}{101.325kPa}*2L}{0.08206\frac{atm*L}{mol*K}*(22+273)K}\\\\n=1.63mol[/tex]

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