Chemistry
GATE CY topic:equilibrium PYQs
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Question 65
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The following figure shows an experimental liquid-liquid phase diagram of phenol and water at the vapor pressure of the system. The total amount of phenol and water (in mol) present in the phenol-rich phase when 5 mol of water was shaken with 5 mol of phenol at 40 °C is ____.

(rounded off to one decimal place)
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For an ideal gas, the molecular partition function in the canonical ensemble, that is proportional to the system volume (V), is the
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Two-component solid-liquid system of naphthalene-benzene forms a simple eutectic mixture. Assuming that naphthalene-benzene forms an ideal solution, the mole fraction of naphthalene in benzene at 300 K and 1 bar is ______ (rounded off to two decimal places)
(Given: Freezing point (T₍fp₎) and enthalpy of fusion (ΔH₍fus₎) of naphthalene are 353 K and 19.28 kJ mol⁻¹, respectively and gas constant (R) = 8.31 J K⁻¹ mol⁻¹)
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According to Debye-Hückel limiting law, the mean molal activity coefficient for 0.87 g K₂SO₄ (molar mass = 174 g mol⁻¹) in 1 kg of water at 25 °C is ______ (rounded off to two decimal places)
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A solution is prepared by dissolving 128 g of naphthalene (C₁₀H₈) in 780 g of benzene (C₆H₆). The vapor pressure of pure benzene is 12.6 kPa at 25 °C. Assuming that naphthalene in benzene is an ideal solution, the partial vapor pressure of benzene is ______ kPa (rounded off to two decimal places)
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For the galvanic cell: H₂ (g) | HCl (aq) | Cl₂ (g)
the standard electromotive force (E⁰) value is given by
where E⁰ is in Volts and T is in Kelvin.
For the cell reaction, the standard enthalpy change (ΔᵣH⁰) at 300 K is ______ kJ mol⁻¹ (rounded off to the nearest integer)
(Given: Faraday constant, F = 96500 C mol⁻¹)
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The CORRECT statement(s) about the following phase diagram for a hypothetical pure substance X is(are)

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The parameter(s) fixed for each system in canonical ensemble is(are)
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EMF of the following cell
at 25 °C and 1 bar is 0.36 V. The value of the mean activity coefficient (rounded off to three decimal places) of CuSO
at 25 °C and 1 bar is [Given: Standard electrode potential values at 25 °C for
and
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In a collection of molecules, each molecule has two non-degenerate energy levels that are separated by 500 cm
. On measuring the population at a particular temperature, it was found that the ground state population is 10 times that of the upper state. The temperature (in K, rounded off to the nearest integer) of measurement is [Given: Value of the Boltzmann constant = 0.695 cm
K
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