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What are the mole fraction and the partial pressure of each gas?

How can I find the fraction of volume actually occupied by the molecules of a gas based on the Van der Waals equation?

  • It turns out that the van der Waals constant b equals four times the total volume actually occupied by the molecules of a mole of gas. Using this, calculate the fraction of the volume in a container actually occupied by Ar atoms a. at STP b. at 100 atm pressure and 0 degrees Celsius (Assume for simplicity thta the ideal-gas equation still holds)

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    There's an easy answer and a deeper one. Provide temperature, volume and and we can define pressure. Fractional volume assumes a smallest volume element. Most of matter is empty space. See #virtualParticles for analytical continuation of this question.

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Excluded volume is n.N.4.(4/3).(22/7)r.r.r where n= no of moles of gas; N= Avogadro Number; r= (vanderWaal's radius of one atom of Argon)

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