complete and balance this rquation for the combustion of ethanol, when its used as fuel:
' C2H5OH+---.........+O2

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complete and balance this rquation for the combustion of ethanol, when its used as fuel:
' C2H5OH+--->.........+O2

anonymous · Answer

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chmvijay · Answer

hey in most of the combustion reactions CO2and H2O is liberated as a by products

chmvijay · Answer

hey got it

nincompoop · Answer

combustion usually involves an addition of oxygen in a reaction.  rephrasing what @chmvijay mentioned, all samples of Carbon in the sample winds up as carbon dioxide, and all Hydrogen in the sample winds up as Water (H_2O)

so your reactants would have to be
$$C_2H_5OH+O_2 \rightarrow $$
This implies that Oxygen is your excess.

abb0t · Answer

Are they reacting ethanol and $O_2$  or is $O_2$ the product?!?!?!

nincompoop · Answer

he's missing another reactant on the LHS. And just O_2 as a product would break the law of definite proportion and law of conservation of mass

nincompoop · Answer

C2H5OH+ 
+ what?

chmvijay · Answer

combustion means O2 on left hand side with another reactant LOL:)

chmvijay · Answer

hey its not for you @nincompoop but its for @abbot LOL

abb0t · Answer

slap yourself, noob!

chmvijay · Answer

LOL:) cool :)