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Why the volume of a gas is not measured immediately after it is collected?

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Collecting gas over waterWhen collecting oxygen gas and calculating its partial pressure by displacing water from an inverted bottle, the presence of water vapor in the collecting bottle must be accounted for; this is easily accomplished using Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures.

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