If a solution contains 1 x 106 hb molecules, how many o2 binding sites are available? if the solution of hb is 50% saturated with o2, how many binding sites are occupied by o2? if the hb solution is 23% saturated with o2, how many binding sites are occupied by o2?

Actually each molecule of Hb can bind four oxygen molecules. So given 1 x 10^6 Hb, so there are 4 x 10^6 binding sites available.

If only 50% of the Hb are bound, so this means that 2 x 10^6 binding sites are occupied by O2. However we must remember that hemoglobin binding is an all-or-nothing phenomenon. Meaning that each molecule of Hb binds four molecules of oxygen or zero at all.

If 23% is saturated, so the number of binding sites occupied is 0.92 x 10^6 binding sites or 9.2 x 10^5 binding sites.

beta decay is the answer

when 25.0 ml of 0.700 mol/l naoh was mixed in a calorimeter with 25.0 ml of 0.700 mol/l hcl, both initially at 20.0 °c, the temperature increased to 22.1 °c. the heat capacity of the calorimeter is 279 j/°c.

the equation for the reaction is:

naoh + hcl → nacl + h₂o

moles of hcl = 0.0250 l hcl ×

0.700

mol hcl

1 l hcl = 0.0175 mol hcl

volume of solution = (25.0 + 25.0) ml = 50.0 ml

mass of solution = 50.0 ml soln ×

1.00

ml soln

= 50.0 g soln

δt=t2-t1

= (22.1 – 20.0) °c = 2.1 °c

the heats involved are

heat from neutralization + heat to warm solution + heat to warm calorimeter = 0

q1+q2+q3=0

nδh+mcδt+cδt=0

0.0175 mol ×

δh

+ 50.0 g × 4.184 j·g⁻¹°c⁻¹ × 2.1 °c + 279 j°c⁻¹ × 2.1 °c = 0

0.0175 mol ×

δh

+ 439.32 j + 585.9 j = 0

0.0175 mol ×

δh

= -1025.22 j

δh=1025.22j0.0175 mol= -58 600 j/mol = -58.6 kj/mol