## Calculating K when there is multiple phases

$PV=nRT$

Phuong Tran 1G
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### Calculating K when there is multiple phases

What do you do when the equilibrium equation includes both aqueous and gas phases? Do you solve for each independently and somehow add them or do you convert?

Alice Ma 2K
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### Re: Calculating K when there is multiple phases

You would have to convert the gaseous species into concentration using the Ideal Gas Law and find Kc. There is no way to find Kp because the aqueous species have no partial pressure.

Andrew Liang 1I
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### Re: Calculating K when there is multiple phases

I think in that case we would need to convert the gas to molar concentration using the equation: concentration= P/RT.

kim 2I
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### Re: Calculating K when there is multiple phases

When calculating K, all the components should be in the same "form/units." Therefore, the concentration of the gas would have to be calculated using the Ideal Gas Law of PV=nRT (divide by V on both sides, moles (n) over V = concentration, therefore, conc=P/RT). Finally the Kc can be calculated: Kc=[products]/[reactants].

Amy Xiao 1I
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### Re: Calculating K when there is multiple phases

Thank you for clarifying why aqueous solutions cannot have partial pressure; I was under the impression that you could convert either to partial pressure or concentration for each of them.