Porous materials soaked in acetone are placed in acetylene cylinders to create a lot of very small volumes, each with very little acetylene gas. acetone is used because it dissolves times its own volume of acetylene for every 14.7 psig pressure, effectively storing the acetylene as a liquid.

For a research project, a student decided to test the effect of the lead(ii) ion (pb2+) on the ability of salmon eggs to hatch. this ion was obtainable from the water‐soluble salt, lead(ii) nitrate, which the student decided to make by the following reaction. pbo(s) + 2 hno3(aq) → pb(no3)2(aq) + h2o losses of product for various reasons were expected, and a yield of 86.0% was expected. in order to have 5.00 g of product at this yield, how many grams of pbo should be reacted? (assume that sufficient nitric acid, hno3, would be used.)