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Understanding Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure

daltons law of partial pressure will be easily explained in this video with animation let's say we have a container with three different gases gas one gas two and gas three note that the gases are all inside the same container this means that they all have the same volume now let's take the same container and spread the gases out equally while holding the volume constant in each container the sum of the partial pressures of the three gases will equal the total pressure of the mixture of gases let's look at the pressure meters above the gas chambers to notice that each partial pressure of the individual gases equals the pressure of all the gases in the same container now let's look at the formula for dalton's law of partial pressure first let's derive the ideal gas law where pressure times volume equals NRT we can see that the pressure is equal to NRT over V now let's look at dalton's law of partial pressure we're at a constant volume we can add the partial pressure volumes of the individual gases to equal the total pressure of the combined gases let's do a sample question here a gas mixture contains hydrogen helium neon and argon the total pressure of the mixture is ninety three point six kiloPascals the partial pressures of helium neon and argon are fifteen point four kilo Pascal's twenty four point seven kPa and thirty five point six kPa respectively what is the pressure extended by hydrogen so we know that the total pressure is equal to ninety three point six kiloPascals of pressure and we have the pressures of the other three gases in the mixture we also know that all the units are the same and we don't have to do any mole conversions so all we need to do is add up the three individual pressures and subtract them from the total to get the pressure of hydrogen which is sixteen point nine kilo Pascal's this question uses daltons law of partial pressures perfectly thanks for watching we hope you found this video helpful be sure to LIKE and subscribe for more new videos