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Burning fuels.
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Our aim is to find out which fuel out of the following 4 1. METHANOL - CH3OH 2. ETHANOL - C2H5OH 3. PROPANOL - C3H7OH 4. BUTANOL - C4H9OH Gives the most energy when it is burnt. 2. To find out if there is a correlation between energy and a certain number of carbons. Burning fuels is a combustion (oxidation) reaction: for example 2C H3OH + 302 2CO2 + 2H20 + ENERGY Reaction A chemical reaction takes place in two steps. STEP 1 The chemical bonds in the reactants are broken to release the atoms, which make the reactants. For this to happen we need to provide energy. One of the reactions that we must give it is called ENDOTHERMIC (Heat energy put in). H O H O H O H 2(H -C - O - H) + 3 (O=O) O H C H O H O H O H O H C The bonds that are...
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