Question

Nitroglycerin is a dangerous powerful explosive that violently decomposes when it is shaken or dropped. The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) founded the Nobel Prizes with a fortune he made by inventing dynamite, a mixture of nitroglycerin and inert ingredients that was safe to handle. 1. Write a balanced chemical equation, including physical state symbols, for the decomposition of liquid nitroglycerin (CzH,(NO3),) into gaseous dinitrogen, gaseous dioxygen, gaseous water and gaseous carbon dioxide X 2. Suppose 36.0 L of carbon dioxide gas are produced by this reaction, at a temperature of-14.0 C and pressure of exactly 1 atm. Caliculate the mass of nitroglycerin that must have reacted. Round your answer to 3 significant digits Explanation Check

Answer 1

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