Oxygen is needed to carry out a lot of biochemical processes in the body. If the amount of oxygen available to the blood decreases significantly a lot of things will go wrong in the body. For instance, lack of adequate oxygen will lead to the death of neurons which will eventually leads to brain cells death and irreparable brain damage. Oxygen is also needed for cellular respiration, without respiration, there will not be oxygen for carrying out various cellular activities and this will result into death. Oxygen deprivation will also leads to difficulty in breathing and other associated problems.
Answer:
Mercury has a density of 13.6g/mL
For this item, we need to assume that air behaves like that of an ideal gas. Ideal gases follow the ideal gas law which can be written as follow,
PV = nRT
where P is the pressure,
V is the volume,
n is the number of mols,
R is the universal gas constant, and
T is temperature
In this item, we are to determine first the number of moles, n. We derive the equation,
n = PV /RT
Substitute the given values,
n = (1 atm)(5 x 10³ L) / (0.0821 L.atm/mol.K)(0 + 273.15)
n = 223.08 mols
From the given molar mass, we calculate for the mass of air.
m = (223.08 mols)(28.98 g/mol) = 6464.9 g
<em>ANSWER: 6464.9 g</em>
