Small bubbles that form on the bottom of a beaker of water being heated before boiling are due to air coming out of solution. Find the total volume of nitrogen and oxygen gas that should bubble out of 1.5 L of tap water warming from 20 °C to 70°C. Assume that the water is saturated with nitrogen and oxygen at 20°C, that all the gas bubbles come out at 70°C, and the total pressure is 1.0 atm. Use the Henry’s law constants below.
Gas kH (M/atm) at 20°C kH (M/atm) at 70°C Partial Pressure
O2: 1.3*10-3 6.1*10-4 0.21 atm
N2: 6.1*10-4 3.0*10-4 0.78 atm
What I tried:
First looking at N2 at 20°C: 6.1*10-4M/atm x 0.78atm= 4.758*10-4M
4.758*10-4M x 1.5L= 7.137*10-4 mol N2 gas
Then using PV=nRT to solve for V:
1 atm * ___L = 7.137*10-4 mol * 0.08206 L*atm/(mol * K) * 293 K
=0.0171599L for N2at 293K
Then doing the same for the other three, I got:
0.00987945L for N2 at 343K
0.009845846L for O2 at 293K
0.005408365L for O2 at 343K
So for the total volume of all the gases I summed the four values up and got 0.0423L which is almost twice the amount of the correct answer. Also I tried switching where I used partial pressures and the 1 atm but also got the incorrect answer...does anyone see where I messed up in my work or could tip me if I'm approaching this problem in the incorrect manner?