Question

1. The chemical 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene is better known by its initials, TNT. It is an important explosive, since it can very quickly change from a solid into hot expanding gases. Two moles of solid TNT almost instantly changes to 15 moles of hot gases. If two moles of TNT can change into 15 moles of hot gases, how many liters of hot gases would be created?

Answer 1

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When TNT denotes its volume increases by 1000 fold. TNT is Solid and it is very unstable compound when it denotes it convert to gaseous.

Detonation velocity is 6940m/s which is much higher than gasoline explosion.

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