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 (C₂H₂(NO3)₂) into gaseous dinitrogen, gaseous dioxygen, gaseous water and gaseous carbon dioxide. 2. Suppose 61.0 L of carbon dioxide gas are produced by this reaction, at a temperature of -5.0 °C and pressure of exactly 1 atm. Calculate the mass of nitroglycerin that must have reacted. Be sure your answer has the correct number of significant digits. ローロ X

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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 (C₂H₂(NO3)₂) into gaseous dinitrogen, gaseous
dioxygen, gaseous water and gaseous carbon dioxide.
2. Suppose 61.0 L of carbon dioxide gas are produced by this reaction, at a
temperature of -5.0 °C and pressure of exactly 1 atm. Calculate the mass of
nitroglycerin that must have reacted. Be sure your answer has the correct number of
significant digits.
0:
ローロ
3
X
x10
5
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 (C₂H₂(NO3)₂) into gaseous dinitrogen, gaseous dioxygen, gaseous water and gaseous carbon dioxide. 2. Suppose 61.0 L of carbon dioxide gas are produced by this reaction, at a temperature of -5.0 °C and pressure of exactly 1 atm. Calculate the mass of nitroglycerin that must have reacted. Be sure your answer has the correct number of significant digits. 0: ローロ 3 X x10 5
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