The label has come off a cylinder of gas in your laboratory. You know only that one

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The label has come off a cylinder of gas in your laboratory. You know only that one species of gas is contained in the cylinder, but you do not know whether it is hydrogen oxygen, or nitrogen. To find out, you evacuate a 5-liter flask, seal it and weigh it, then let gas from the cylinder flow into it until the gauge pressure equals 1.00 atm. The flask is reweighed, and the mass of the added gas is found to be 13.0g Room temperature is 27°C, and barometric pressure is 1.00 atm. What is the gas?

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Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes

ISBN: 978-0471720638

3rd Edition

Authors: Richard M. Felder, Ronald W. Rousseau

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