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[Kyle Rex 1K]

It says containers B and C have 1 mole of atoms bound into diatomic molecules. Does this mean that it's 1 mole of diatomics or .5 mol of diatomics bc the 1 mol of atoms would be split in half? and how would the entropies compare of 1 mol of atoms vs diatomics?

[Harry Zhang 1B]

1 mol of atoms bound into diatomic molecules means there are 0.5 mol of diatomic molecules(1 mol*(1 mol molecule/2 mol atoms). This means the entropy of this will be lower than that of 1 mol of atoms because there are more single atoms and hence greater disorderliness.

[Ryan Yee 1J]

The entropy of the container with diatoms would be higher because you have to worry about the orientation when looking at microstates. Since they both have 1 mol of atoms, then the container with diatoms has higher entropy.

[John Calonia 1D]

I actually believe that the container with monoatomic gas phase molecules will have higher entropy because there are more particles present.