Question
Predict the Products for the following reactions and write the chemical equation.
Combustion: Liquid Octane, C8H18 burn in oxygen gas.
how would you set this up and predict the product?
Thnx in advance whoever figures it out :)
Combustion: Liquid Octane, C8H18 burn in oxygen gas.
how would you set this up and predict the product?
Thnx in advance whoever figures it out :)
Answers
DrBob222
Octane is a hydrocarbon (hydrogen and carbon only). When reacted with oxygen, the C is burned to CO2 and the hydrogen in burned to H2O. So the products of octane are CO2 and H2O.