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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: shaikh bony on November 29, 2018, 01:16:29 PM
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I needed some combustion related information about Turpentine. Can anyone help me with the heat of combustion of turpentine? Also, I needed the exact chemical equation of the combustion of turpentine. Thanks in advance!
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you can start off by finding out what turpentine and what it consists of
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You can reasonably hope to find the heat of combustion on the web.
Turpentine consists essentially of monoterpenes, which have all the same empirical formula, and similar heats of formation, so
- The heat of combustion depends little on the turpentine's composition, which varies a lot
- You may write a single chemical equation for the combustion of "turpentine", despite it's a variable mix.
I won't do it for you because it's the way this forum works. You could start with Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpentine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoterpene
and show us where you got to.
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@Enthalpy,
Thank you very much dear!
I was working on a fire simulation that involves oil of turpentine as a fuel source. Thanks to you, I found what I had been looking for. However, I am yet to find the exact reaction that takes place during a fire incident involving turpentine.
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To write the combustion equation, you need the empirical formula of monoterpenes, write that the combustion with O2 produces H2O and CO2 (if the air amount suffices, otherwise it can produce CO), and put coefficients to balance the equation.