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Matt has 100 grams of Nitrogen. He is wondering how much volume the Nitrogen will take up if it maintains its normal density. Calculate the volume, and show your work.

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Final answer:

To calculate the volume of nitrogen, we need to use the ideal gas law formula and the molar mass of nitrogen. The volume of the nitrogen gas would be approximately 100 liters.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the volume of nitrogen, we need to use the ideal gas law formula, PV = nRT, where P is the pressure, V is the volume, n is the number of moles of gas, R is the gas constant, and T is the temperature in Kelvin. Since we don't have enough information to calculate the number of moles, we can't directly find the volume. However, we can use the molar mass of nitrogen, which is 28.01 g/mol, to find the density of nitrogen gas, which is slightly greater than 1 g/L.

Using the density, we can estimate the volume by dividing the mass of nitrogen (100 grams in this case) by the density. So the volume of the nitrogen gas would be approximately 100 g / 1 g/L = 100 L.

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