Chemistry in Context
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ISBN: 9780073522975
Author: American Chemical Society
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 49Q
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The phrase “tragedy of the commons” and how air pollution is a classic example has to be explained.
Concept Introduction:
Air pollution is the introduction of harmful material into the atmosphere, causing damage to living being and to the environment.
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2.) It’s a bad day in the lab! Two students are doing experiments. Each is 20 feet away from the professor. At the same time, each of them lets the same amount of a smelly gas into the room. One of them releases ammonia, NH3, and the other releases SO2. NH3 has a pungent odor, and SO2 smells like rotten eggs. The professor has no idea that this has happened, until she smell the first gas. Which chemical will the professor smell first? (NH3 or SO2) . If the professor starts to smell the first gas 42. seconds after the gas is released, how long will it take her to smell the second gas? sec.
* Note: It is unsafe practice to work with these chemicals in an open lab.
Calculate the total mass (in kg) of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide gases in the atmosphere.
Assume that the total mass of air in the atmosphere is 5.25 x 1021 g.
Mass of N2
x 10
kg
Mass of O2
x 10
|kg
Mass of CO2
x 10
kg
(Enter your answers in scientific notation.)
Composition of dry air at sea level
Composition
(% by Volume)
Gas
N2
78.03
O2
20.99
Ar
0.94
CO2 0.033
Ne
0.0015
Не
0.000524
Kr
0.00014
Хе
0.000006
Chapter 1 Solutions
Chemistry in Context
Ch. 1.1 - Prob. 1.2CTCh. 1.1 - The air is different in a pine forest, a bakery,...Ch. 1.1 - Scientific Practices More Oxygen ? We live in an...Ch. 1.2 - Prob. 1.5SCCh. 1.3 - Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is released in the air when...Ch. 1.4 - Prob. 1.9YTCh. 1.5 - Prob. 1.10CTCh. 1.6 - Prob. 1.11YTCh. 1.11 - Prob. 1.19YTCh. 1.11 - Prob. 1.21YT
Ch. 1.12 - Summarize what you have learned about ozone...Ch. 1.13 - Prob. 1.27YTCh. 1.13 - Prob. 1.28YTCh. 1.13 - Prob. 1.29SCCh. 1.13 - Prob. 1.30YTCh. 1.13 - Prob. 1.35CTCh. 1 - Prob. 1QCh. 1 - Prob. 2QCh. 1 - Prob. 3QCh. 1 - Identify three sources of particulate matter found...Ch. 1 - Prob. 5QCh. 1 - Prob. 6QCh. 1 - In these diagrams, two different types of atoms...Ch. 1 - Prob. 8QCh. 1 - Prob. 9QCh. 1 - Prob. 10QCh. 1 - Prob. 11QCh. 1 - Prob. 12QCh. 1 - Prob. 13QCh. 1 - Consider the following blank periodic table. a....Ch. 1 - Classify each of these substances as an element, a...Ch. 1 - Prob. 16QCh. 1 - Hydrocarbons are important fuels that we burn...Ch. 1 - Prob. 18QCh. 1 - Arrange these types of radiation in order of...Ch. 1 - These questions relate to the combustion of...Ch. 1 - Balance these equations in which ethane (C2 H4)...Ch. 1 - Prob. 22QCh. 1 - Count the atoms on both sides of the equation to...Ch. 1 - Prob. 24QCh. 1 - Nail polish remover containing acetone was spilled...Ch. 1 - Prob. 26QCh. 1 - Prob. 27QCh. 1 - Prob. 28QCh. 1 - Prob. 29QCh. 1 - Prob. 30QCh. 1 - A headline from the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska...Ch. 1 - Prob. 32QCh. 1 - Consider how life on Earth would change if the...Ch. 1 - Prob. 34QCh. 1 - Prob. 35QCh. 1 - Prob. 36QCh. 1 - Prob. 37QCh. 1 - Prob. 38QCh. 1 - Prob. 39QCh. 1 - Prob. 40QCh. 1 - Prob. 41QCh. 1 - Prob. 42QCh. 1 - Prob. 43QCh. 1 - Prob. 44QCh. 1 - Prob. 45QCh. 1 - Prob. 46QCh. 1 - Prob. 47QCh. 1 - Prob. 48QCh. 1 - Prob. 49QCh. 1 - Mercury, another serious air pollutant, is not...Ch. 1 - The EPA oversees the Presidential Green Chemistry...Ch. 1 - Prob. 52QCh. 1 - Here are two scanning electron micrograph images...Ch. 1 - Prob. 54QCh. 1 - Prob. 55QCh. 1 - Prob. 56QCh. 1 - Prob. 57QCh. 1 - You may have admired the beauty of hardwood...Ch. 1 - Prob. 59Q
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