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Chapter Overview: Solutions

Orient the student to the macroscopic phenomena of solutions and test required prerequisites like moles and stoichiometry.

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The Scuba Diver's Dilemma

Hook introducing Henry's law via the bends, and colligative properties via antifreeze.

By the end of this chapter, you'll be able to solve problems like this: If a scuba diver breathes air at high pressure underwater, exactly how much extra nitrogen dissolves in their blood? And why do they get a dangerous condition called "the bends" if they surface too quickly?

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Pressure and Gas Solubility in Diving

How Henry’s Law applies when a scuba diver goes deeper underwater.

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As a scuba diver descends deeper into the sea, the surrounding pressure increases. According to Henry’s Law, higher pressure makes more nitrogen dissolve in the blood.

This is why divers must come up slowly, so the dissolved nitrogen can safely leave the body without forming bubbles.

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Prerequisite Skills

Checklist of previously learned concepts needed for this unit.

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Before You Start — Check What You Know

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Diagnostic Check

Tests mole calculation and basic stoichiometric ratios.

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What is the molar mass of ethylene glycol ( $\text{C}_2\text{H}_6\text{O}_2$ )? (Atomic masses: $\text{C}=12$ , $\text{H}=1$ , $\text{O}=16$ )

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Concept: prerequisite-math

Concepts

01. Expressing Concentration

Student can interconvert mass %, volume %, mole fraction, molarity, and molality.

02. Solubility And Henry's Law

Student can predict the effect of pressure on gas solubility using Henry's Law.

03. Vapour Pressure & Raoult's Law

Student can calculate total vapour pressure using Raoult's Law and predict deviations in non-ideal solutions.

04. Colligative Properties I

Student can calculate molar mass using Relative Lowering of Vapour Pressure and Elevation of Boiling Point.

05. Colligative Properties II

Student can calculate molar mass using Freezing Point Depression and Osmotic Pressure.

06. Abnormal Molar Masses

Student can incorporate the van't Hoff factor (i) to calculate colligative properties for electrolytes that dissociate or associate.

07. Chapter Review: Solutions

Synthesize the calculation of concentration, vapour pressure, and colligative properties with abnormal molar mass corrections.