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The average area of the circle on the surface of the water was calculated to be 521 cm^2 for the ethyl alcohol and 881 cm^2 for the ethyl alcohol solution of naphthalene. What is the area occupied by one molecule of naphthalene?
Given that the average area of the circle on the surface of the water was calculated to be 521 cm2 for the ethyl alcohol. From this information we can calculate the average radius of the above mentioned circle.
i.e., Surface Area = 4πr12 = 521 cm2 , where r1 is the radius of the circle.
r1= [521/(4π) ]1/2= 6.438 cm
So radius of the circle on the surface of the water for ethyl alocohol is calculated to be 6.438 cm
Now we have to calculate the radius (r2) of the cicle on the surface of water for ethyl alcohol solution of naphthalene.
Given Surface Area = 4πr22 = 881 cm2
r2 = [881/(4π) ]1/2= 8.372 cm
By calculating the difference we can get the radius of naphthalene molecule.
i.e., Radius = 8.372 cm - 6.438 cm = 1.934 cm
So average surface area of naphthalene = 4πr2 = 4π*(1.934 cm)2 = 47.00 cm2