Try it on paper first. A hint, the key idea and the worked solution are here when you need them.
Diethyl ether, , has a normal boiling point of and an enthalpy of vaporisation of . A sealed flask of holds some liquid ether and its vapour, with no other gas, at . Find the vapour pressure of ether at from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. Then treat the vapour as an ideal gas, and find the amount and the mass of ether in the vapour. Would the vapour pressure change if the flask were twice as large?
A liquid boils when its vapour pressure equals the outside pressure. The Clausius-Clapeyron equation is , with in kelvin and in J/mol. The vapour pressure does not depend on the amount of liquid or the size of the vessel.
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Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Given. , , , .
Step 1. The vapour pressure. . So .
Step 2. The amount of vapour. .
Step 3. The mass. .
Step 4. A bigger flask. The vapour pressure would be the same, provided that some liquid is left. The larger flask would hold twice the amount of vapour, , so more liquid evaporates.
Check. The measured vapour pressure of ether at is about , close to the that we calculated.
Answer: , and . A flask of twice the volume has the same vapour pressure.
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