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 (C3H5(NO3),) into gaseous dinitrogen, gaseous dioxygen, gaseous water and gaseous carbon dioxide. 2. Suppose 11.0 L of carbon dioxide gas are produced by this reaction, at a temperature of – 10.0 °C and pressure of exactly 1 atm. Calculate the mass of nitroglycerin that must have reacted. Round your answer to 3 significant digits.

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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 (C3H5(NO3),) into gaseous dinitrogen, gaseous
dioxygen, gaseous water and gaseous carbon dioxide.
Ox10
2. Suppose 11.0 L of carbon dioxide gas are produced by this reaction, at a
temperature of – 10.0 °C and pressure of exactly 1 atm. Calculate the mass of
nitroglycerin that must have reacted. Round your answer to 3 significant digits.
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Transcribed Image Text: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 (C3H5(NO3),) into gaseous dinitrogen, gaseous dioxygen, gaseous water and gaseous carbon dioxide. Ox10 2. Suppose 11.0 L of carbon dioxide gas are produced by this reaction, at a temperature of – 10.0 °C and pressure of exactly 1 atm. Calculate the mass of nitroglycerin that must have reacted. Round your answer to 3 significant digits. 미미
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