Gas Laws and the Mole Flashcards
mole
The amount of a substance which contains 6.023 x 10²³ particles of that substance
(Avogadro’s number or constant = L)
kelvin
Celsius + 273
standard temp
273 K
normal temp
293 K
standard pressure
1 x 10⁵ Pa / 100,000 Pa
100 kPa
litre and cm³
1 litre = 1000 cm³
Boyle’s Law
States that: at constant temperature, the volume of a fixed mass of gas is inversely proportional to its pressure
Charles’ Law
States that: at constant pressure, the volume of a fixed mass of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature measured on the Kelvin scale
V ∝ T
General Gas Law
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Gay Lussac’s Law of combining volumes
the volume of the reacting gases and the volumes of any gaseous products are in the ratio of small whole numbers provided the volumes are measured at the same temp + pressure
Avogadro’s Law
state that: equal volumes of gases contain equal numbers of molecules under the same conditions of temp + pressure
Molar Volume
at standard temp + pressure (s.t.p) one mole of any gas occupies 22.4 litres/dm³
at r.t.p: 24 litres/dm³
s.t.p
standard temperature + pressure
r.t.p
room temperature + pressure
Ideal Gas
one which perfectly obeys all the gas laws + all the assumptions of the kinetic theory of gases under all conditions of temperature + pressure
Gas
a substance that has no well defined boundaries but diffuses rapidly to fill any container in which it was placed
Pressure
The pressure of a gas is the force that the gas exerts on each unit area (eg. one square meter) of its container
Si unit of pressure
Newton per meter squared (N’m²)
Also called the pascal (Pa)
Normal atmospheric pressure
1 x 10⁵ N/m²
1 x 10⁵ Pa
Kilopascal
as numbers can be large, the kilo-pascal is also used
Volume
how much space something takes up
Si unit of volume
cubic meter (m³)
Gas & containers
volume of a sample of gas is same as container it is held in
Other ways volume is measured
cm³
litre (also known as dm³)
Pressure & volume
As pressure goes up, volume goes down