Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons, primarily methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6). A typical mixture might have xmethane=0.915 and xethane 0.085. What are the partial pressures of the two gases in a 13.90-L container of natural gas at 30.°C and 1.36 atm? Partial pressure of methane = ____________ atm Partial pressure of ethane = ____________ atm Assuming complete combustion of both gases in the natural gas sample, what is the total mass of water formed? Mass of H2O = ________________ Mass = g
Ideal and Real Gases
Ideal gases obey conditions of the general gas laws under all states of pressure and temperature. Ideal gases are also named perfect gases. The attributes of ideal gases are as follows,
Gas Laws
Gas laws describe the ways in which volume, temperature, pressure, and other conditions correlate when matter is in a gaseous state. The very first observations about the physical properties of gases was made by Robert Boyle in 1662. Later discoveries were made by Charles, Gay-Lussac, Avogadro, and others. Eventually, these observations were combined to produce the ideal gas law.
Gaseous State
It is well known that matter exists in different forms in our surroundings. There are five known states of matter, such as solids, gases, liquids, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate. The last two are known newly in the recent days. Thus, the detailed forms of matter studied are solids, gases and liquids. The best example of a substance that is present in different states is water. It is solid ice, gaseous vapor or steam and liquid water depending on the temperature and pressure conditions. This is due to the difference in the intermolecular forces and distances. The occurrence of three different phases is due to the difference in the two major forces, the force which tends to tightly hold molecules i.e., forces of attraction and the disruptive forces obtained from the thermal energy of molecules.
Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons, primarily methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6). A typical mixture might have xmethane=0.915 and xethane 0.085. What are the partial pressures of the two gases in a 13.90-L container of natural gas at 30.°C and 1.36 atm?
Partial pressure of methane = ____________ atm
Partial pressure of ethane = ____________ atm
Assuming complete combustion of both gases in the natural gas sample, what is the total mass of water formed? Mass of H2O = ________________
Mass = g
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