A brown gas sample initially contains nitrogen dioxide, NO₂(g)

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Problem

A brown gas sample initially contains nitrogen dioxide, NO₂(g), which undergoes the reaction 2 NO₂(g) → 2 NO(g) + O₂(g) The table below reports the measured concentration of NO₂ at three equally spaced times during the experiment. All concentrations are expressed in mol L⁻¹.
Time (s)[NO₂] (M)[O₂] (M)
00.0800.000
600.068———
1200.056———
Answer the following questions. (1) Calculate the concentration of O₂ at 60 s and at 120 s, completing the table above. (2) Describe the quantitative relationship between the rate of disappearance of NO₂ and the rate of appearance of O₂ for this reaction, and explain how that relationship guided your calculations in part (a).

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