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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

Can you please state an example of gay Lussac`s law of gaseous volume ?

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12 Years agoGrade 12
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12 Years ago
Problem:
A 20 L cylinder containing 6 atm of gas at 27 °C. What would the pressure of the gas be if the gas was heated to 77 °C?
Solution

The cylinder's volume remains unchanged while the gas is heated so Gay-Lussac's gas law applies. Gay-Lussac's gas law can be expressed as

Pi/Ti= Pf/Tf

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