Chemistry, 18.07.2019 18:30 lilytimpsonx

The rate of effusion of oxygen to an unknown gas is 1.49. what is the other gas?

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Answer from: rainyshea72

The unknown gas is $\boxed{{\text{chlorine}}}$ .

Further Explanation:

Effusion is defined as the process by which molecules of gas travel through a small hole from high pressure to the low pressure. According to Graham’s law, effusion rate of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of the molar mass of gas.

${\text{Rate of effusion}}\left({\text{R}}\right)\propto\frac{1}{{\sqrt {{\mu}}}}$ ......(1)

Where $\mu$ is the molar mass of gas.

The rate of effusion of oxygen is expressed as

${{\text{R}}_{{\text{oxygen}}}}\propto \frac{1}{{\sqrt {{{{\mu }}__{{\text{oxygen}}}}}}}$ ......(2)

And, the rate of effusion of other gas is expressed as

${{\text{R}}_{{\text{gas}}}}\propto\frac{1}{{\sqrt{{{{\mu }}__{{\text{gas}}}}}}}$ ......(3)

Since rate of effusion of oxygen is 1.49 times of rate of effusion of the unknown gas. Therefore,

${{\text{R}}_{{\text{oxygen}}}}=1.49{{\text{R}}_{{\text{gas}}}}$ ......(4)

Substitute the value of ${{\text{R}}_{{\text{white phosphorus}}}}$ and ${{\text{R}}_{{\text{Neon}}}}$ from equation (2) and equation (3) respectively in equation (4).

$\frac{1}{{\sqrt{{{{\mu }}_{_{{\text{oxygen}}}}}}}}= 1.49\frac{1}{{\sqrt{{{{\mu }}__{{\text{gas}}}}}}}$ ......(5)

Simplify equation (5) as follows:

$\begin{aligned}\frac{1}{{\sqrt{{{{\mu }}__{{\text{oxygen}}}}}}}&=1.49\frac{1}{{\sqrt{{{{\mu }}__{{\text{gas}}}}}}}\hfill\\\sqrt{{{{\mu }}__{{\text{gas}}}}}&=1.49\left({\sqrt {{{{\mu }}__{{\text{oxygen}}}}}}\right) \hfill\\{{{\mu }}__{{\text{gas}}}}&={\left({1.49\left({\sqrt {{{{\mu }}__{{\text{oxygen}}}}}} \right)}\right)^2}\hfill\\\end{gathered}$

Therefore the molar mass of white phosphorus is,

${{{\mu }}__{{\text{gas}}}}={\left({1.49\left({\sqrt{{{{\mu }}__{{\text{oxygen}}}}}}\right)} \right)^2}$ ......(6)

The molar mass of oxygen is 32 g/mol.

Substitute the value of molar mass of oxygen in the equation (6).

$\begin{aligned}{{{\mu }}__{{\text{gas}}}}&= {\left( {1.49\left({\sqrt {32\;{\text{g/mol}}} } \right)} \right)^2}\\&=71.0432\;{\text{g/mol}}\\\end{gathered}$

Therefore, the calculated molar mass of the unknown gas is 71.0432 g/mol and we know the gas with the molar mass of 71.0432 g/mol is chlorine. So the unknown gas is chlorine.

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Grade: Senior School

Subject: Chemistry

Chapter: Ideal gas equation

Keywords: Effusion, rate of effusion, oxygen, unknown gas, chlorine, 1.49, molar mass, atomic mass, rate of effusion of oxygen, rate of effusion of gas, molar mass of oxygen, Graham’s law of effusion.

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nacl or sodium chloride is an ionic compound. this is because an ionic compound pertains to a compound that consists of positively and negatively charged ions. in this case, na (sodium) has a tendency to lose one electron when it reacts with with other atoms, so the resulting sodium ion contains 11 protons and 10 electrons, thus making it positively charged (na+), when chlorine reacts, it usually gains one electron to form an ion called chloride, thus making it negatively charged ( since the ions are oppositely charged, they attract.

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