Q.

Among the following gases which gas has the highest Henry's law constant, KH value in water at the same temperature?

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a

O2

b

N2

c

H2

d

He

answer is D.

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Detailed Solution

 Henry's law states that, the amount of gas dissolved, or the solubility of this gas will be directly proportional to the partial pressure at a given temperature.

From the given formula,

P=KH×C

By rearranging these terms, we get:

KH=PC where, P is the partial pressure, KH is Henry's law constant and C is the concentration of gas dissolved.

 From this above equation we know that the solubility of the gas is inversely proportional to Henry's law constant.

KH1C

This means that a gas is easily soluble in water, which would result in more amount of the gas dissolving in water, which would lead to a rise in its concentration and hence the Henry's law constant should decrease.

therefore, for a gas to have a high value of Henry's law constant, it should have very less solubility in water.

Hence the Value of Henry's law constant in decreasing order will be:

He>N2>H2>O2

Hence, option(d) is correct answer.

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