Chapter 5, Problem 159CP

A steel cylinder contains 5.00 moles of graphite (purecarbon) and 5.00 moles of ${\text{O}}_{\text{2}}$ . The mixture is ignitedand all the graphite reacts. Combustion produces a mixtureof CO gas and ${\text{CO}}_{\text{2}}$ gas. After the cylinder hascooled to its original temperature, it is found that thepressure of the cylinder has increased by 17.0%. Calculatethe mole fractions of CO, ${\text{CO}}_{\text{2}}$ , and ${\text{O}}_{\text{2}}$ in the final gaseous mixture.