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At and a total pressure of , an equilibrium mixture of has an average molar mass of (molar mass of ). The total pressure, in atm, at which the degree of dissociation at the same temperature becomes is ____ .
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For one mole of dissociating to a degree , the moles at equilibrium are , so the average molar mass is . Setting gives and . The equilibrium constant is , which for atm and is atm. Since depends only on temperature, for we need atm. As expected from Le Chatelier's principle, a higher pressure suppresses dissociation, from to . The route is therefore: use the molar mass to find the degree of dissociation, convert it to at the given pressure, and then reuse at the new pressure, because the equilibrium constant is fixed at constant temperature. The answer is .
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