{"id":1751,"date":"2013-07-20T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukemiller.org\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2014-07-20T19:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:01:28","slug":"o2-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/o2-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"O2 conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The molar volume of an ideal gas is ~22.4 liters per mole (we&#8217;ll\u00a0 consider O2 to be an ideal gas for these purposes, and 22.4 is an approximation that varies with temperature, it&#8217;s 22.414 at 0C). Convert from 22.4 liters to milliliters ( = 22400 ml per mol). So if you have 1 milliliter of an ideal gas, there is 1 ml \/ 22400 ml per mol = 0.00004464 mol of that gas, which is 44.64 \u00b5mol of the gas. Thus, if you have a volume of a gas in ml, you can calculate the \u00b5mols of that gas simply by multiplying by 44.64.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if an oxygen consumption rate is quoted in \u00b5l O2 \/ mg tissue \/ hour, convert to \u00b5mol O2 \/ g \/ hr as follows:<\/p>\n<pre>1 \u00b5l O2 = 0.001 ml O2<\/pre>\n<pre>0.001 ml O2 x 44.64\u00b5mol\/ml = 0.04464 \u00b5mol O2.<\/pre>\n<pre>0.04464 \u00b5mol O2\/ mg \/ hr x 1000 mg\/g = 44.64 \u00b5mol O2 \/ g \/ hr.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The molar volume of an ideal gas is ~22.4 liters per mole (we&#8217;ll\u00a0 consider O2 to be an ideal gas for these purposes, and 22.4 is an approximation that varies with temperature, it&#8217;s 22.414 at 0C). Convert from 22.4 liters to milliliters ( = 22400 ml per mol). So if you have 1 milliliter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}