The production of nox gases is an unwanted side reaction of the main engine combustion process that turns octane, c8h18, into co2 and water. if 85% of the oxygen in an engine is used to combust octane, and the remainder used to produce nitrogen dioxide, calculate how many grams of nitrogen dioxide would be produced during the combustion of 800 grams of octane.

Explanation:

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At first, the combustion of octane is illustrated as shown below:

Now, since 800 grams of octane are burned, we compute the moles of oxygen that reacted via stoichiometry:

As that is the combusting oxygen, we now look for the total oxygen that was employed by:

Therefore the 15% used in the NO₂ turns out:

Finally, for the NO₂ production:

The produced grams of NO₂ are:

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the answer would be c