Practice problems for chapter 12

1. A sample of oxygen occupies 15.8 L under a pressure of 285 torr. At what pressure
would it occupy 27.9 L?

2. A sample of ethane, C2H6, occupies 260 mL at 32C under a pressure of 0.500 atm.
At what temperature would it occupy 500 mL under a pressure of 1200 torr?

3. What would be the volume of 0.185 moles of Xe gas at STP? What would be the
density at STP (g/L)?

4. At a particular T and P, 4.52 moles of a gas occupies 80.1 L. Under the same
conditions, the density of the gas is 1.48 g/L. What is the molecular weight? What is
the density at STP?

5. Calculate the pressure exerted by 50.0 grams of ethane, C2H6, in a 25.0-L container
at 25C.

6. Find the molecular weight of a compound if 7.52 L of vapor at 155C and 777 torr
has a mass of 29.2 grams?

7. Cyanogen is 46.2% carbon and 53.8% nitrogen by mass. At a temperature of 25C

and a pressure of 750. torr, 1.00 g of cyanogens gas occupies 0.476 L. Determine the
empirical and molecular formula of cyanogens gas.

8. A sample of hydrogen gas was collected over water. The gas occupied 352 mL at
20C. The barometric pressure was 685 torr. How many moles of dry hydrogen are
present?

9. How many mL of O2(g) is produced when 252 moles of KClO3 is decomposed

according to the reaction below. The amount of O2(g) was measured at 353 K and
692 torr? KClO3(s)  KCl(s) + O2(g)

10. The diffusion rate of ethane, C2H6, is 5.72 m/s. Determine the molecular weight of an
unknown gas that has a diffusion rate of 4.19 m/s under the same conditions.

11. Use both the ideal gas law and the van der Waals equation to calculate the pressure
exerted by a 10.0-mole sample of CO2 in a 60.0-L container at 100.C. By what
percentage do the two results differ?