If 4 gases in a cylinder each exert a pressure of 4 atm, what is the total pressure in the cylinder?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-26T11:58:47

#16\ atm#

Partial pressure of a gas is the pressure exerted by that gas alone.

Each of #4# gases individually exerts a pressure of #4\ atm# i.e.

Partial pressure of each of #4# gases #=4\ atm#

Now, by Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures, the total pressure of gaseous mixture of non-reacting gases

#=\text{sum of partial pressures }#

#=4+4+4+4#

#=16\ atm#