Answer to Question #155515 in General Chemistry for Sage Topaz

Question

It is suspected that a substance is the drug nicotine, C₁₀H₁₄N₂. If a 0.2500 g sample is burned, what is the amount of carbon dioxide is expected as the product?

Answer 1

Taking stoichiometry of the equation into account,

1g of nicotine burns to give 2.71 g of CO₂.

Therefore, 0.25 g would give 0.68g of CO₂.