Magnesium can be used as a getter in evacuated enclosures to react with the last traces of

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Magnesium can be used as a "getter" in evacuated enclosures to react with the last traces of oxygen. (The magnesium is usually heated by passing an electric current through a wire or ribbon of the metal.) If an enclosure of 0.452 L has a partial pressure of O2 of 3.5 x 10-6 torr at 27oC, what mass of magnesium will react according to the following equation?
2Mg (s) + O2 (g) → 2 MgO (s)
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Chemistry The Central Science

ISBN: 978-0321696724

12th edition

Authors: Theodore Brown, Eugene LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward

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