A chemist collected 56.1 mL of gas in an open manometer. The next day, the chemist noted that the volume had changed to 57.9 mL and the barometer reading was 99.4 kPa. The temperature had not changed. What had been the barometer reading on the previous day when the gas was collected?

The small bags of silica gel you often see in a new shoe box are placed there to control humidity. despite its name, silica gel is a solid. it is a chemically inert, highly porous, amorphous form of sio2. because water vapor readily adsorbs onto the surface of silica gel, it acts as a desiccant. despite not knowing mechanistic details of the adsorption of water onto silica gel, from the information provided you should be able to make an educated guess about the thermodynamic characteristics of the process. predict the signs for δg, δh, and δs for the adsorption of water.