What is the volume of oxygen gas in the required complete combustion? Full question located as an image in the description box below.

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1 Answer
Jan 1, 2018

Look at your combustion equation....

C2H6(g)+72O2(g)2CO2(g)+3H2O(g)

Explanation:

And clearly, GIVEN the equation, if I combust a 10L volume of ethane, I will be requiring a 35L volume of dioxygen gas... Do you agree? And if I combust a 10L volume of ethane, then what volume of carbon dioxide will I generate (take that atmosphere!)? You should be able to answer pdq.

That they quoted the temperature was an attempt to distract you....we assume that the reactants were also at this temperature. The question is poorly specified.