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Let's see if we can figure out the equilibrium partial pressure of carbon dioxide in a particular chemical reaction.
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So let's take a look at the decomposition of barium carbonate.
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Now, if you notice in this chemical reaction, the only gas or aqueous substance is carbon dioxide.
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Barium oxide and barium carbonate are solids.
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So if we want to know the equilibrium pressure of co2, we're going to have to deal with equilibrium.
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And if we were to come up with the value or the expression for the equilibrium constant here, remember solids don't go into the expression when we use the law of mass action.
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So it actually turns out here that the pressure of carbon dioxide at equilibrium is also the value of the equilibrium constant.
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Well, how are we going to get the value of the equilibrium constant? well, we're going to have to use enthalpy and entropy values in order to come up with the gibbs free energy.
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And so we can, if we kind of work backwards here a little bit, if we know the gibbs free energy, we can relate that to the equilibrium constant.
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And we know that we can do that because k can be equal to e to the negative delta g not over rt.
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However, when we when we have our delta g, we have to be able to account for temperatures.
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So we're going to have to calculate the delta h and the delta s as well.
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We especially have to do that.
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If we're not at standard conditions.
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And so if we look at anything other than 298 kelvin, we can't just use delta g values from tables of data because they're not going to be at 298 kelvin.
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So the way that we're going to have to deal with that is to calculate delta g with delta h minus t delta s.
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So we can only have the knot when we're at 298, anything other than 298 kelvin, we need other values.
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So we're going to have to do a lot of calculation here to figure out what the equilibrium constant is.
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Because we're also going to need them to figure out the delta h and delta s.
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Now we're going to need to use the fact that the delta h of reaction is equal to the heat of formation times the number of moles of the products.
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Minus that of the reactants.
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Same thing for our delta s.
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So we're going to go look for in our table of values for the h's of formation for each of our substances, the entropy's of formation for each of our substances, calculate the delta h and delta s of reaction.
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We're going to plug that in to delta g equals delta h minus t delta s to find the delta g.
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And then we're going to use that delta g and whatever temperature we've got in the equation for the equilibrium constant to find the value of k.
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And we created our law of mass action way up here at the beginning.
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We know for this particular reaction, the equilibrium constant and the pressure of carbon dioxide are the same.
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All right, so let's go ahead and get those values and work through this problem.
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So let's figure out the delta h.
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First.
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All right, so the delta h for this particular reaction, we can go find the values of the barium oxide and the carbon dioxide because we have to deal with the product side first.
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And we have one mole of each.
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So we have negative 553 .5 and we have negative 393 .5.
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And we have negative we're adding them together because the reaction says take the sum...