Chemistry

Dalton’s Law
Mini Lab

Purpose: This activity will give you the opportunity to work with Dalton’s Law of
Partial Pressures of a gas collected over water.

Procedures:
1)Fill a gas measuring tube with 25.0 mL of water.
2)Fill a tall tube with room temperature water to within 2 cm of the top.
3)Invert the gas measuring tube, holding the end so no water can escape, and place the
eudiometer tube inside the larger tube filled with room temperature water. Allow the
eudiometer to sit in the room temperature water for 5 minutes to allow the gas in the
eudiometer to adjust to the same temperature as the water.
4)Measure and record the temperature of the water.
5)Measure and record the barometric pressure.
6)Move the gas measuring tube up/down so that the level of water in the tube equals the
level of the water in the larger tube. At this level the pressure of the gas in the tube is
equal to the barometric pressure you just measured. Record the volume of the water in
the eudiometer tube.
BE SURE TO RECORD ALL MEASURED AND CALCULATED VALUES IN A
PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED DATA TABLE.

DATA:

CALCULATIONS/QUESTIONS: (Always show your work)

1)What is the partial pressure of the water vapor in the eudiometer?

2)What is the pressure of the dry air in the eudiometer (gas measuring tube)? Show your
work?
3)If air is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, what is the pressure of the dry air caused by
nitrogen? Oxygen? Show your work.

4)If air at room temperature and at 6200 feet elevation has a density of 9.5 x 10-4 g/mL.
then how many grams does the volume of dry gas you measured weigh?