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High School Chemistry Forum / CH4 combustion exercise
« Last post by Thoma64 on Today at 04:26:12 PM »
Hello everyone,
I am posting this message because I have an exercise to do and I am completely lost. Could you help me on how to do it? :

Exercise:
Consider the combustion of methane with regular air. Inlet temperatures of methane and air are 300 K and 400 K, respectively. The mass flow rate of air is 0.1 kg/s, and the lambda factor is 0.9.
This is a case of a rich mixture (λ<1). In this case, the species in the products will contain CO2, H2O, CO, H2, and N2, among other species. Mass (or atoms) conservation is not enough to close the problem.

1) Considering only the five species in the products mentioned above, evaluate the Kp of the selected equilibrium reaction based on the basic thermodynamic information (enthalpies of formation, molar heats and reference entropy of the species involved).

2) Evaluate the concentration of the five species considering Tcc=1400 K

3) Evaluate the combustion temperature and the concentration of the five species (global itetaive process)

Thank you for your help. This exercise is very important to me.
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sounds like gypsum is the likely culprit.  thank you!
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Any acidic compound react with carbonates to CO2, what will blow up your bags.

Check your compounds, if they are acidic.  Normal salts are neutral. But minerals maybe not.
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What are they?
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Howdy, fellers and ladies!

I am at a loss on the explosive reaction I have been creating and am seeking prof help.

I have been creating sparkling water for the fam for many years and have, in the last 2 years, starting to add minerals back in for flavor and health.  I use reverse osmosis as my starting point and run a custom kegerator set up.

Anyway, my question is regarding the minerals I use appear to 'explode' when mixed together and vacuum packed for later use.

I source high quality lab / food grade USA sourced (when possible).  Here is my list:

Real Salt (Redmond Life)
Potassium Bicarbonate
Epsom salt (aka magnesium sulfate)
Gypsum (aka calcium sulfate)
magnesium carbonate
Calcium Carbonate
Baking Soda (Sodium bicarbonate)
Ascorbic Acid

After the first large batch of this (enough for 20 kegs bc I dont want to mix every single keg we do) I noticed the vacuum packs I did of dry powder expanding big time.

I used what I could and removed the Vitamin C on the next batch  as it clearly had a reaction.  Then I removed the baking soda on the next batch.  I add these two in manually each time to each keg.

Still with those two removed, I made a batch last night, an explosion of powder was what I found.

I would think this is probably some basic high school chemistry that I am just not walking around with.... please let me know/explain what is happening here.


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Please read the forum rules, you have to show your efforts at answering the question to receive help.

There is plenty of information on the internet - have you tried to read anything? Do you have any specific questions?
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Materials and Nanochemistry forum / How to prepare gold nanoparticles
« Last post by Tasha on Yesterday at 11:47:07 PM »
How can it be prepared from scratch? I have 0.1 grams of raw gold and after dissolving it, I want to dilute it to the desired value, then I want to use it to prepare gold nanoparticles so that they form perfectly and at the required concentration with the correct calculations. I have Sodium citrate tribasic dihydrate, RPE as a reduction agent."
How to prepare this pls!?
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EPA has you covered.

https://www.epa.gov/mercury/what-do-if-mercury-thermometer-breaks

I remember once when I was in graduate school someone had their mercury bubbler rupture, spewing mercury everywhere. We had to call the chemical safety specialists at the university and they evacuated the whole lab for a day while they cleaned it up. Never saw what they did, but they did come in with hazmat suits. That was a lot more mercury than a single thermometer.
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High School Chemistry Forum / Re: solvated O^2- anions?
« Last post by Corribus on Yesterday at 09:18:05 AM »
The most straightforward way to approach this would be to consider several equilibria constituting (1) dissociation of the oxide and (2) reactions between the oxide ion, hydroxide ion, and water. At equilibrium free oxide concentrations would be very low, perhaps not even measurable.

A more advanced picture would consider heterogeneous equilibria at the metal oxide surface. In aqueous suspension, most oxides exhibit various degrees of protonation at the surface. Dissolution of the oxide is a complex process involving different crystalline faces, defect cites, and so forth.
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Other Sciences Question Forum / how to remove mercury pollution from your lab?
« Last post by mana on Yesterday at 06:57:28 AM »
hi all
how I  should remove mercury pollution if mercury thermometer was broken in the lab? is it OK to pour some sulfur powder on the remained mercury and then swapping or vacuuming the mercury sulfide that has formed due to this reaction?
or is there any better way for that?
thanks in advance for your help
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