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? asked in Science & MathematicsChemistry · 7 years ago

How much would the concentration of CO2(aq) change due to a temperature change from 25°C to 26°C at 1atm?

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  • 7 years ago
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    Whoa! Back the boat up. While there seems to be a lot of work there, N3...'s solution makes no sense. He is calculating the moles of GAS in 1 L of CO2 at 298K and 1 atm. That isn't the amount that is dissolved in SOLUTION at 298K.

    The amount of CO2 dissolved in water can be determined from Henry's law.

    c = kH(p) ..... c is the concentration of the gas, kH is the Henry's law constant for the particular gas and p is the partial pressure of the gas above the solution.

    c = 0.034 mol/Latm x 1.00 atm = 0.034 mol/L

    The Henry's law constant varies with temperature, and must be calculated at the new temperature.

    kH(T) = kH(T') x e^(C(1/T - 1/T')) .... where T is the new temperature, T' is 298K, C is a constant for each gas. For CO2, C = 2400

    kH(T) = 0.034 mol/Latm x e^(2400(1/299 - 1/298))

    kH(T) = 0.033 mol/Latm

    Calculating the concentration at 26C....

    c = kH(p)

    c = 0.033 mol/Latm x 1.00 atm = 0.033 mol/L

    The concentration will decrease by 0.001 mol/L as the CO2 solution goes from 25C to 26C.

  • 7 years ago

    PV = nRT

    n = PV/RT

    P = 1atm

    R = 0.08205746 Latm/Kmol

    T1 = 25C + 237.15K = 298.15K

    T2 = 26C + 237.15K = 299.15K

    n = PV/RT

    n = 1atm(1L)/(0.08205746 Latm/Kmol)(298.15K)

    n = 1/24.465mol

    n = 0.0409mol CO2 --- initial mass of CO2

    n = 1atm(1L)/(0.08205746 Latm/Kmol)(299.15K)

    n = 1/24.547mol = 0.0407mol CO2 -- final mass of CO2

    dm = mf - mi

    where,

    M = m/V

    M = 0.0409mol/L = 0.0409M <--- Molarity of CO2 at 25C

    M = 0.0407mol/L = 0.0407M <---- Molarity of CO2 at 26C

    dM = Mf - Mi = 0.0407M - 0.0409M = -0.0002M <---- change of CO2 when T is increased by 1C

    therefore,

    ----- The concentration of CO2 is decreased by about 0.0002M when the temperature is increased from 25C to 26C. The final concentration of CO2 at 26C is 0.0407M.

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