Question #d5b78

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Jun 7, 2017

1.12 xx 10^25

Explanation:

At room temperature (20 ^@"C") and atmospheric pressure (101.3 kPa), 1 mol of gas will occupy "24.06 dm"^3, so "224 dm"^3 will contain

\frac{"224 dm"^3}{"24.06 dm"^3"/mol"} = "9.31 mol" of gas.

1 mol of anything has 6.022xx10^23 molecules in it, so "9.31 mol" contains

"9.31 mol" xx 6.022 xx 10^23 " molecules/mol" = 5.607 xx 10^24 " molecules"

But, each molecule of oxygen gas contains 2 oxygen atoms, as the formula for oxygen gas is "O"_2.

Therefore, there will be twice that many atoms.

So, the number of atoms present

=5.607 xx 10^24 " molecules" xx 2 " atoms/molecule" = 1.12 xx 10^25 " atoms"

If the gas is not at atmospheric pressure and room temperature, then use the ideal gas equation, pV = nRT to work out the no. of moles of oxygen gas, then follow the same method.