Avogadro’s Law

(Prepared by: Rashid Ignacio)

1. Introduction
 The Avogadro’s Law describes the relationship between Moles(n) and Volume(v)
 The law was first proposed in 1811 by Amedeo Avogadro, a professor of higher physics at the
University of Turin for many years, but it was not generally accepted until after 1858, when an
Italian chemist, Stanislao Cannizzaro, constructed a logical system of chemistry based on it.

2. Concept

 It means as the volume increases the amount

of substance or the moles also increases, so
the relationship is directly proportional.

2.1 Graph

 This law state that "The

volume of a gas at a given
temperature and pressure is
directly proportional to the
number of moles contained
in the volume".

2.2 Formulas:
Moles = N Volume= V

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3. Application

A good example of Avogadro’s law

22.4 L being used in real life is blowing up a
44.8 L balloon or pumping air into a
basketball. Blowing into a balloon you
are simply increasing the number of
molecules, which, as a result increases
the volume of the balloon; therefore,
the balloon expands.

4. Problem Solving

1. If 2.4 moles of gas occupies a volume of 60L at a certain temperature, what volume
will 3.7 moles of gas occupy?

2. A 250mL balloon contains 0.35 moles of N2 gas. If 0.45 moles of N2 was added to it,
what will be the new volume of the balloon?
3. A cylinder with a movable piston contains 2.00 g of helium, He, at room temperature.
More helium was added to the cylinder and the volume was adjusted so that the gas
pressure remained the same. How many grams of helium were added to the cylinder if
the volume was changed from 2.00 L to 2.70 L? (The temperature was held constant.)