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Estimate the total number of air molecules (inclusive of oxygen, nitrogen, water vapour and other constituents) in a room of capacity 25.0 m3 at a temperature of 27 °C and 1 atm pressure.



Answer -

Volume of the room, V = 25.0 m3

Temperature of the room, T = 270 C= 300 K

Pressure in the room, P = 1 atm = 1 x 1.013 x 105 Pa

The ideal gas equation relating pressure (P), Volume (V), andabsolute temperature (T) can be written as:

PV = (kBNT)

Where,

KB isBoltzmann constant = (1.38 x 10-23) m2 kg s-2 K-1

N is the number of air molecules in the room

Therefore,

N = (PV / kBT)

= (1.013 x 105 x25) / (1.38 x 10-23 x 300)

We get,

= 6.11 x 1026 molecules

Hence, the total number of air molecules in the given room is6.11 x 1026

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