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SOLUTION TO EXERCISE 16

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SOLUTION TO EXERCISE 16


Using reasoning similar to Exercise 15 above, pressure on Venus is 95 times
that of standard, and temperature is 750/273 times that of standard, so


      6 * 10^23 * 95
  N = -------------- = 2.1 * 10^25 gas molecules.
         750/273

So using the same size container, you would collect about 4500 times more gas
molecules on Venus than you would on Mars.