Air bags are activated when a severe impact causes a steel ball to compress a spring and electrically ignite a detonator cap.

Question

Air bags are activated when a severe impact causes a steel ball to compress a spring and electrically ignite a detonator cap. This causes sodium azide (NaN3) to decompose explosively according to the following reaction:
2NaN3 (s) → 2 Na(s) + 3N₂(g)
What mass of NaN3 (s) must be reacted to inflate an air bag to 68.0 L at STP?

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