Question: The partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere is 21.23 kPa. Calculate the partial pressure in atm. Be sure your answer has the right number of significant digits.
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In a mixture of gases, the partial pressure is the amount of pressure each gas would exert if it were the only gas in the volume. The particles of a gas are so small that they do not interact.
Dalton’s law states that the total pressure of a system is the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture. The ratio of the partial pressures of two components will be equal to the ratio of moles of the two components.
One helpful value for converting between pressures is the mole fraction, or ratio of moles, of one gas to the total number of moles. The mole fraction multiplied by the total pressure gives the partial pressure of the gas.
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