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Title: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: Ming on May 01, 2012, 02:41:57 PM
How would you write a balanced equation for the complete combustion of liquid
cycloheptane (C7H14) in oxygen to give water and carbon dioxide gases as the only products?
Title: Re: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: fledarmus on May 01, 2012, 02:44:26 PM
How would you start? Can you write the unbalanced equation?
Title: Re: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: Ming on May 01, 2012, 03:58:37 PM
C7H14+14O2=7CO+7H20
Title: Re: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: AWK on May 01, 2012, 04:13:22 PM
Complete combustion means CO2 not CO is formed
Title: Re: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: fledarmus on May 01, 2012, 04:18:20 PM
Quote from: Ming on May 01, 2012, 02:41:57 PM
How would you write a balanced equation for the complete combustion of liquid
cycloheptane (C7H14) in oxygen to give water and carbon dioxide   gases as the only products?

Ooops, AWK beat me!  ;)
Title: Re: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: Ming on May 01, 2012, 04:41:04 PM
2C7H14+21O2=14CO2+14H2O
Title: Re: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: fledarmus on May 01, 2012, 05:10:24 PM
Bingo!  ;D
Title: Re: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: stabo on May 20, 2012, 04:44:50 AM
A molecule of C5H10 reacts separately with Cl2 ?

Is this correct : C5H10 + Cl2 = C5H9Cl + HCl ?

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: writing a balanced equation?
Post by: Borek on May 20, 2012, 07:36:31 AM
Quote from: stabo on May 20, 2012, 04:44:50 AM
A molecule of C5H10 reacts separately with Cl2 ?

Is this correct : C5H10 + Cl2 = C5H9Cl + HCl ?

Thanks in advance!

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