Question

Plumbers, welders, or glass blowers often use the gas acetylene (C2H2) because it burns in oxygen with a very hot flame. The products of the combustion of acetylene are carbon dioxide and water vapor. Write the unbalanced chemical equation for this process. (Include states-of-matter under the given conditions in your answer.)

Answer 1

Answer:

Unbalanced equation: $C_{2}H_{2}(g)+O_{2}(g)\rightarrow CO_{2}(g)+H_{2}O(g)$

Explanation:

• Acetylene reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water vapor.
• Here reactants are acetylene and oxygen. Here products are carbon dioxide and water vapor.
• We know that physical state of water vapor is gas. Therefore each and  every reactants and products are gaseous.
• States of the species in unbalanced equation is represented inside parentheses with an abbreviation "g" for gaseous state.
• Unbalanced equation: $C_{2}H_{2}(g)+O_{2}(g)\rightarrow CO_{2}(g)+H_{2}O(g)$