A student pours 200 grams of methanol, a flammable substance into the sink. Another student causes the bad situation to get evern worse by dropping a lit match into the sink. The methanol burns completely with 300 grams of oxygen from the air.

What mass, in grams, is converted into energy?

3 answers

Huh ?
This is a chemical reaction, not a nuclear explosion.
That's a much better answer than the one I gave two/three days ago. I'm still trying to find the limiting reagent.
LOL - well it sure had me flummoxed !