Asked by Dan

How many liters of carbon dioxide at 20 oC and 750 torr are produced when one gallon of toluene is burned

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Answered by DrBob222
Convert 1 gallon of toluene to mL then to grams. Follow the procedure in the link below to calculate moles CO2, then use PV = nRT to convert to liters.
http://www.jiskha.com/science/chemistry/stoichiometry.html
Answered by Dan
can't convert ml to grams
Answered by DrBob222
You can if you know the density. Look at your post where you asked how to convert ml to grams. I worked the problem for you form scratch.
Answered by Dan

1 gallon toluene = about 3,785 mL
density = about 0.867 g/mL
mass toluene = 3785 mL x 0.867 g/mL = 3282 grams.
C7H8 + 9O2 ==> 7CO2 + 4H2O

moles toluene = grams/molar mass = 3282/92 = about 36 moles.
From the equation above, 1 mole C7H8 will produce 7 moles CO2; therefore, 36 moles toluene will produce 7 x 36 = about 250 moles CO2..

PV = nRT– V=250 X 8.314 X 293 / 750 = 812 L

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