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Can 78 percent of nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen be a solution?
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∙ 13y ago
The simple answer to your question is "maybe." Solutions are defined as a homogenous (uniform) mixture of 2 or more substances. In a solution, a solute is dissolved into another substance known as the solvent. When referring to a solution in chemistry, one is often referring to a mixture of 2 or more liquids, however solutions may be composed of mixtures of a solid, gas or liquid. In cases of liquid and solid solvents, another substance (the solute) in a gas, liquid or solid phase may be dissolved into the solvent to make a solution. Solutions of gases can only be made with mixtures of substances in the gas phase.
78% nitrogen gas and 21% oxygen gas may be considered a solution if these 2 gases are homogenously mixed with another gas (or gases) that make up the remaining 1%. The mixture of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen refers to the composition of the atmosphere of Earth or air. In reality air is not considered a solution as it contains many impurities which make it a heterogenous mixture.
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What gas is 21 percent of earth atmosphere?
Oxygen
What are the gases that make up our Earths atmosphere?
nitrogen,oxygen, methane,argon,sulphurdioxide,co2,hydrogen,helium,water vapours,krypton
Do you breathe in more oxygen or nitrogen?
you breathe in more nitrogen then oxygen because there is 78% n in the air and 21% o in the air
Air contains 21 percent oxygen by volume and the rest nitrogen If the barometer pressure is 740 mm of Hg the partial pressure of oxygen is close to?
If we consider oxygen content in atmosphere to be roughly around 21% and the rest nitrogen then answer to the above question will be: 155.4 mm of Hg
What two elements comprise 99 percent of the volume of the Earth's atmosphere?
Earth's atmosphere is roughly 78% Nitrogen & 21% Oxygen.
The air you breathe is made of 21 percent oxygen and 78 percent nitrogen The oxygen in air is the?
It's the oxygen. Since oxygen doesn't dissolve into nitrogen - air is a mixture, not a solution - you can't call it the solute and the nitrogen the solvent, which may have been the answer you thought you were going to get.
Why is oxygen 21 percent and nitrogen 78 percent?
This is the composition of the air.
What percent does nitrogen and oxygen makeup in the atmosphere?
nitrogen: 78% oxygen: 21% trace gases: 1%
Why nitrogen is 98 percent in environment as oxygen is 21 percent?
Nitrogen makes up 78% of the atmosphere, not 98%.
Is 21 percent of the earth's atmosphere nitrogen?
No, 21% of Earth's atmosphere is oxygen. Nitrogen makes up 78%.
Which planet's atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen?
The Earth has an atmosphere of 78% nitrogen (and 21% oxygen).
What percent of O and N can you find in the atmosphere?
78% Nitrogen 21% Oxygen
What gas is 21 percent of earth atmosphere?
Oxygen
Its composition is 78 percent nitrogen 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent other?
The earth's atmosphere at sea level.
99 percent of the atmosphere is made out of?
78% nitrogen gas 21% oxygen gas
Which three gases make up over 99.9 percent of the air?
The three gases that make up over 99.9 percent of the air are nitrogen (about 78 percent), oxygen (about 21 percent), and argon (about 0.9 percent).
Is ordinary air about 21 percent oxygen and 78 percent nitrogen?
it contains 78% nitrogen 21% oxygen and 1% Argon in clean air. However There are more chemicals in that 1 remaining percent such as Helium, Carbon Dioxide, Methane, etc. But the Majority of that 1% is Argon therefore we class the 1% as Argon - Matthew Pote
