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Chapter 10 Problem 53

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Long-term space missions require reclamation of the oxygen in the carbon dioxide exhaled by the crew. In one method of reclamation, 1.00 mol of carbon dioxide produces 1.00 mol of oxygen, with 1.00 mol of methane as a by-product. The methane is stored in a tank under pressure and is available to control the attitude of the spacecraft by controlled venting. A single astronaut exhales 1.09 kg of carbon dioxide each day. If the methane generated in the recycling of three astronauts respiration during one week of flight is stored in an originally empty 150-L tank at 245.0C, what is the final pressure in the tank?

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Title College Physics 9 
Author Serway Vuille
ISBN 9780840062062

Solved: Long-term space missions require reclamation of

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