Question

Wine goes bad soon after opening because the ethanol dissolved in it reacts with oxygen gas to form water and aqueous acetic acid , the main ingredient in vinegar. Calculate the moles of acetic acid produced by the reaction of of ethanol. Be sure your answer has a unit symbol, if necessary, and round it to significant digits.

Answer 1

The answer is "It takes 1,70 mol of ethanol".

Explanation:

To make acetic acid, we must first write the balanced reaction that occurs of ethanol with oxygen

The response is balanced:

`CH_3CH_2OH+O_2\to CH_3COOH+H_2O`

1 mol of ethanol creates 1 mol of According the equilibrium Ethanol moles, therefore, required 1.70 mol of water = 1.70 mol