A Little Quiz on Gases and Their Properties

1. Liquid mercury freezes at a temperature of -39 oC. The freezing point of mercury on the Kelvin scale is:

2. To increase the volume of a fixed amount of gas from 100 cm3 to 200 cm3:

3. A sample of gas weighs 0.250 g and occupies a volume of 112 cm3 at STP. The molecular weight of this gas is:

4. The volume in Liters of H2 (g) (measured at 22 oC and 745 mmHg) required to react with 30.0 L CO(g) (measured at 0 oC and 760 mmHg) in the reaction CO(g) + H2 (g) -> C3H8 (g) + H2O(l) is:

5. A sample of oxygen gas is collected over water at 23 oC at a barometric pressure of 751 mmHg (the vapor pressure of water at 23 oC = 21 mmHg). The partial pressure of oxygen gas in the sample collected is:

6. A gaseous mixture consists of 50.0% O2 , 25.0% N2 , and 25.0% Cl2, by mass. At standard temperature and pressure, the partial pressure of:


7. Of the following values, the most likely to be observed for the actual volume of 1.00 mole of He(g) at 0 oC and 1000 atm is:

8. If 0.50 mole H2 (g) and 1.0 mole He(g) are compared at standard temperature and pressure, the two gases will:

9. In a sample of air at STP, the ratio of the root-mean-square velocity of O2 to that of N2 , that is urms  (O2) / urms (N2), is equal to:

10. A gas of twice the molecular weight as CO will pass through a small hole how much faster than CO ?

11. If a gas's volume is doubled but the temperature remains constant:


12. When 8.21 L of C3H8 (g) burn in oxygen, how many liters of oxygen are consumed? All gas volumes are measured at thesame temperature and pressure but not at STP.

E) none of these answers

13. In the reaction CH4 + 2O2 -> CO2 + 2H2O, how many liters of O2 react with 5.0 liters of CH4 ? All gas volumes are measured at the same temperature and pressure but not at STP.

14. In the reaction 2Na + 2H2O -> 2NaOH + H2 , how many liters of hydrogen at STP are produced from 50.0 grams of sodium (Na = 23.0, O = 16.0, H = 1.0 g/mol) ?

15. In the reaction Fe2O3 + 3H2 -> 2 Fe + 3 H2O, how many moles of iron can be produced using 17.4 liters of hydrogen at STP?


16. Two containers are connected by an open tube. One container (A) is at 300 K, the other (B) is at 600 K. These two containers must have:

17. If a liter of CO2 is compared to a liter of H2, both at 25 oC and one atmosphere pressure, then:

18. The energy of molecules of a gas:


19. A 1.37 L vessel contains He at a temperature of 24.5 oC and a pressure of 205 mmHg. A 721 mL vessel contains Ne at a temperature of 36.2 oCand a pressure of 0.185 atm. Both of these gases are placed in a 2.00 L vessel at 302 K. What is the final pressure (in atm) in the 2.00 L vessel?

20. 53.5 g of an ideal gas of molecular weight = 30.5 g/mol are confined at a pressure of 133 mmHg. The density of the gas is 0.228 g/L. Compute the temperature of the gas in degrees Celsius.

21. The complete combustion of octane, a component of gasoline, is represented by the equation:

2C8H18 (l) + 25O2 (g) -> 16CO2 (g) + 18H2O(l)

How many liters of CO2 (g), measured at 63.1 oC and 688 mmHg, are produced for every gallon of octane burned? (1 gal = 3.785 L; density of C8H18 (l) = 0.703 g/mL)

22. A 500.0 mL sample of O2 (g) is at 780 mmHg and 30 oC. What will be the new volume if, with the pressure and amount of gas held constant, the temperature is decreased to -15 oC?

23. What volume of acetylene gas, C2H2 , would be required at STP to obtain a 200.0 g C2H2 sample?


24. A sample of N2 (g) effuses through a tiny hole in 19.0 s. How long would it take for a sample of N2O2 (g) to effuse under the same conditions?


25. Calculate the height of a column of liquid glycerol (d = 1.26 g/cm3), in meters, required to exert the same pressure as 4.91 m of water.


Convert each pressure to the equivalent pressure in standard atmospheres:

26) 1250 mmHg

27) 8.50 kg/cm s2

28) 421 kPa

29) 27.5 inches of mercury

30) 780 Torr


31. A 40.2 L constant-volume cylinder containing 2.21 mol He is heated until the pressure reaches 4.2 atm. What is the final temperature?

32. A sample of gas has a volume of 2.5 L at 30 oC and 720 mmHg. What will be the volume of this gas at 22 oC and 750 mmHg?

33. A gaseous hydrocarbon weighing 0.290 g occupies a volume of 125 mL at 25 oC and 760 mmHg. What is the molar mass of this compound?

34. What pressure must be applied to N2 (g) to obtain a density of 2.00 g/L at 25 oC?

35. Calculate the volume of H2 (g) expressed at STP, required to react with 3.00 L of CO(g) at STP in the following reaction:
3CO(g) + 7H2 (g) -> C3H8 (g) + 3H2O(l)

36. Consider the following reaction: N2 (g) + 3H2 (g) -> 2NH3(g)
What volume of NH3 (g) can be produced from 200.0 L of H2 (g) if the gases are measured at 350 oC and 400 atm pressure?


37. Calculate urms , in m/s, for H2 (g) molecules at 25oC.

38. What is the ratio of the diffusion rates of Cl2 and O2?

39. The measured pressure of a van der Waals gas compared to an ideal gas is:

40. Gases tend to behave ideally at


41. What is the volume, in L, occupied by a mixture of 16.0 g Ne(g) and 42.0 g Ar(g) at 15.0 atm pressure and 25 oC?

42. A 4.0 L sample of N2 (g) at 760 mmHg is compressed, at constant temperature, to 3.2 atm. What is the final gas volume?


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