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Offline lilianag

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equilibrium partial pressures
« on: March 06, 2013, 11:45:00 AM »
Initially a 2.00 L flask contains Cl2 with a partial pressure of 0.51 atm and Br2 wih a partial pressure of 0.34 atm. After equilibrium is established, the partial pressure of BrCl is 0.46 atm. Calculate the equilibrium partial pressures of Cl2 and Br2.
For this problem I did this:
kp=p(BrCl)\p(br2)p(cl2)

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Re: equilibrium partial pressures
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2013, 12:07:55 PM »
The number of moles of a gas is propotional to it's partial pressure.

Increase in partial pressure of BrCl=0.46atm

from the given equilibrium constant,

    Br2+Cl2  ::equil:: 2BrCl can be derived.

therefore decrease in partial pressures of Cl2 and Br2=0.23atm (as one mole of Cl2 and Br2 produces two moles of BrCl)

new partial pressure of Cl2=0.51atm-0.23atm=0.28atm
new partial pressure of Br2=0.34atm-0.23atm=0.11atm

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Re: equilibrium partial pressures
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2013, 12:20:20 PM »
so I am assuming no ICE chart is needed for this equation..

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Re: equilibrium partial pressures
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2013, 02:01:57 PM »
What kelvinLTR did is not different from what you could calculate using ICE table. You just don't have to do the final step and use Kp (which is not given) - everything is given so you can directly calculate Equilibrium pressures.
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Re: equilibrium partial pressures
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2013, 02:11:22 PM »
if that 2.00 L flask contains 0.15 mol of each gas, what direction will the reaction proceed?
so what I did was....
Br2(g) + Cl2(g)--> 2BrCl
since its 1 to 2 moles the direction would go to the right

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