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EXERCISE 16


At the surface of Venus, the atmospheric pressure is 95 Earth atmospheres, and
the typical temperature (daytime or nighttime) is about 750 K (much hotter than 
the melting point of lead).  If you gather 22.4 liters of Venusian atmosphere
at its surface, how many gas molecules will you collect?