Sigmund Freud needs some warmth to work on his personality development theories.  He decides to combust some pentane in order to heat his home, and he also plans on collecting the water  produced.  The canister of fuel he found had 1520. grams of pentane inside of it.  If Siggy experimentally collected 1.800 kg of water from the combustion, what was the percent yield of the reaction? (Hint: MM pentane = 72.17 g/mol)   (Hint: 1 x10-3 kg=1 g)   C5H12 (g) +   8 O2 (g) ----->5 CO2   (g)   +    6 H2O   (g)      (BALANCED)

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Sigmund Freud needs some warmth to work on his personality development theories.  He decides to combust some pentane in order to heat his home, and he also plans on collecting the water  produced.  The canister of fuel he found had 1520. grams of pentane inside of it.  If Siggy experimentally collected 1.800 kg of water from the combustion, what was the percent yield of the reaction?

(Hint: MM pentane = 72.17 g/mol)   (Hint: 1 x10-3 kg=1 g)

 

C5H12 (g) +   8 O2 (g) ----->5 CO2   (g)   +    6 H2O   (g)      (BALANCED)

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