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Ch.3 - Chemical Reactions and Reaction Stoichiometry

Chapter 3, Problem 109c

Burning acetylene in oxygen can produce three different carbon-containing products: soot (very fine particles of graphite), CO(g), and CO2(g). (c) Why, when the oxygen supply is adequate, is CO2(g) the predominant carbon-containing product of the combustion of acetylene?

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