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Posted by Elizabeth on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 8:48pm.

a tank contains a mixture of 3.0 mol of nitrogen gas, 2.0 mol of oxygen gas and 1.0 of carbon dioxide gas at 25 degrees celsius and a total pressure of 10.0 atm. Calculate the partial pressure in torr of each gas in the mixture?

Chemistry - DrBob222, Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 10:48pm
Calculate the mole fraction of each gas.
XCO2 = moles CO2/total moles. Do the same for XO2 and XN2.
Then
PCO2 = XCO2*P_total
same process for PN2 and PO2.

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