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A student needs to determine the volume occupied by a gas in a 125 mL flask using the experimental setup described in the procedure. The student measures the volume of the flask to be 156 mL to the top of the flask. The student measures the volume of the flask with a stopper in it to be 138 mL. The student performs the experiment by reacting the strip of magnesium with 5 mL of HCl solution. What is the volume of the flask occupied by the hydrogen gas?
Enter your answer to three significant figures and in units of mL.
Solution :-
Measured volume of flask up to top = 156 ml
Volume of flask with stopper= 138 ml
Volume of HCl = 5.0 ml
Using this information we can find the volume of gas in the flask
Volume of flask = volume of flask with stopper – volume of HCl
= 138 ml – 5.00 ml
= 133 ml
Therefore the volume of the gas in the flask will be 133 ml