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Question #0c07e

Answer 1

The combustion consumes 1070 mL of `"O"_2`.

Explanation:

We don't even have to use moles or the Ideal Gas Law to solve this problem.

We can use Gay-Lussac's Law of Combining Volumes — when gases react to form other gases at the same temperature and pressure, they do so in whole-number ratios.

`"2C"_6"H"_14 + "19O"_2("g") → "12CO"_2("g") + "14H"_2"O"`
`color(white)(mmmmm)"19 mL"color(white)(lmml) "12 mL"`

The balanced equation tells us that 19 mL of `"O"_2` are required to form 12 mL of `"CO"_2`.

∴ `676 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mL CO"_2))) × ("19 mL O"_2)/(12 color(red)(cancel(color(black)("mL CO"_2)))) = "1070 mL O"_2`