III.

Activities Engage

Thomas Graham is best remembered for his study on the diffusion and
effusion of gases. He found that the diffusion rate of gases is inversely
proportional to the square root of their mass density. He astutely noted that
diffusion takes place between the ultimate particles of gases and not between
sensitive masses”.

Recall the previous topics and write the missing concepts on the box.
Write your answers in your notebook.
 Gases

Properties

Kinetic Mol ecular Theory

Density and
Molecular Amount Temperature Volume Pressure
Weight

Charles’ Boyle’s Law

Law

Avogadro’s Gay -Lussac’s Dalton’s Law

Law Law of Partial
Graham’s law of Pressure
effusion

Ideal Gas Law

Explore

Directions: Find and encircle the words listed below in the puzzle.

DIFFUSION TEMPERATURE PROPORTIONAL

EFFUSION DENSITY RATE

VELOCITY KINETIC MOLECULES

MASS PRESSURE GRAHAM

D I F F U S I O N Y U N G H J T P
E N D Z H F A E F F U S I O N E R
N C U A E L E C T R O N F N M M I
S X M V E L O C I T Y R O T I P N
I Q W E L R T Y U I B O A P A E C
T D K I N E T I C Z I X U T V R I
Y M P N B V G R A H A M M C E A P
L K I J H G F D S A A P B O I T A
Y Q N M O L E C U L E S E J E U L
T Q U B B C G X N H Q P R A M R O
R M A P R O P O R T I O N A L E O
E W Y V I V X S U B S H E L L A D
M A S S K T P R E S S U R E Y G I
Directions: Write at least five ideas about Graham’s Law of Effusion. Write
your answers in your notebook.

The rate of effusion

Thomas Graham
Diffusion
GRAHAM'S LAW
OF EFFUSION
RateA = √MMB
Effusion
RateB √ MMA

Elaborate
Directions: Complete the concept map below. Write your answer in your
science notebook.

Graham's Law of
Effusion expressed as:
RateA = √MMB
RateB √ MMA

What is Graham's Law of Effusion?

Graham's Law states that the effusion
rate of a gas is inversely proportional
to the square root of the mass of its
particles.

He observed the rate of Due to their molecular

effusion being motion, gases have the
dependent on the property of:
density of a gas:
DIFFUSION AND EFFUSION
THOMAS GRAHAM
 Directions: Solve the following problems and write your answers on a clean
sheet of paper.
1. What is the rate of effusion of hydrogen gas compared to that
oxygen gas?

2. What is the ratio of effusion rates for He and Ne?

3. Calculate the rate of effusion of NO2 compared to that SO2?

V. Reflection

Complete the following sentence prompts below:

My most important learning in this lesson are as follows:

 To estimate the rate of gas effusion with molar mass, use Graham's Law of effusion.
 Calculate the relative effusion rates of two gases with known molecular weights.
 Using molar mass, describe the rate of effusion;

I enjoyed during the task about:

Calculating and estimating the rate of gas effusion with molar mass