In the video clip from George Gobel
you saw that it is possible to light a charcoal grill in about a
minute. If the grill is prepared using one 20 pound bag of
charcoal (primarily carbon) and two 1 gallon buckets of liquid
oxygen (the density of LOX (liquid oxygen) is 1142 kg/m3,
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.)
Write a balanced chemical equation describing this
reaction.
Determine the limiting reagent for this reaction.
Calculate the mass of each product and any remaining
reactant.
Calculate the amount of heat released by this reaction.
If this heat is used to warm a 500 gallon tank of water
at 15 C, what is the final temperature?
If this heat is used to warm 40 kg of ice at 200 K, what
is the final temperature?
