What can you see if you lower a burning splinter into a glass filled with a) carbon dioxide, b) oxygen, c) air?
August 19, 2020 | Education
| What can you see if you lower a burning splinter into a glass filled with a) carbon dioxide, b) oxygen, c) air? Can carbon dioxide support combustion? Write the reaction equation for the combustion of magnesium in carbon dioxide. What white substance and what black substance are formed during this reaction?
a) the splinter will go out
b) the splinter will flare up and burn quickly
c) the splinter will continue to burn
Carbon dioxide does not support combustion,
2Mg + CO2 -> 2MgO (white matter) + C (black matter)
