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In a spacecraft, the carbon dioxide exhaled by astronauts can be removed by its reaction with lithium hydroxide according to the following equation:

How many moles of lithium hydroxide are required to react with 19.2 mol CO2, the average amount exhaled by a person each day?

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CO2(g) + 2LiOH(s) --> Li2CO3(s) + H2O(l)
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