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Homework Statement
A container contains 1g of O_2 at a pressure of 1 atm and temperature T_i=47°C. At a certain time, due to an escape of gas, the pressure is 5/8 atm and the temperature decreases to 27°C.
1)What is the volume of the container?
2)How much mass of O_2 has escaped?
Homework Equations
PV=NRT.
The Attempt at a Solution
1g of O_2 is worth 1/32 mol of O_2. Thus V=\frac{N_iRT_i}{P_i}. I took care of converting degrees Celcius to kelvin, took 1atm =10⁵ pascal. This gave me V=8.31m^3.
While N_f = \frac{P_fV}{RT_f} \approx 208.25 mol which makes absolutely no sense. I should get less than 1/32, yet I get a number greater than 200. I don't know what I did wrong, I tried another approach leading to another inconsistency: N_f=1.5 N_i.