A "shielding gas" mixture of argon and carbon dioxide is sometimes used in welding to improve the strength of the weld. if a gas cylinder of this two-part mixture was at 4.0 atm pressure and this mixture was 90.% argon, what would be the pressure due to the carbon dioxide gas component?

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Thomas Dunlap

Chemistry

1 August, 12:43

A "shielding gas" mixture of argon and carbon dioxide is sometimes used in welding to improve the strength of the weld. if a gas cylinder of this two-part mixture was at 4.0 atm pressure and this mixture was 90.% argon, what would be the pressure due to the carbon dioxide gas component?

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Kaylyn Zamora · Answer 1

Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures, commonly applied to ideal gases, explains that the partial pressures of individual, non-reacting gases are equal to the total pressure exerted by the gas mixture. The given gas mixture composed of 90% argon and 10% carbon dioxide has the following partial pressures: 3.6 atm for argon and 0.4 atm for carbon dioxide (answer).