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 water produced by the reaction of of oxygen. Be sure your answer has a unit symbol, if necessary, and round it to significant digits.

Answer 1

1.7 moles of ethanol would be needed.

Step-by-step explanation:

* Calculate the moles of ethanol needed to produce 1.70mol of water. Be sure your answer has a unit symbol, if necessary, and round it to the correct number of significant digits.

First off, we have to state the equation for the reaction.

So we know that;

ethanol + oxygen → acetic acid + water

This leads us to;

C2H5OH + O2 → CH3COOH + H2O

1 1 1 1

To obtain the moles of ethanol needed to produce 1.70mol of water, we look at the stoichiometry of the reaction above.

1 mol of ethanol produces 1 mole of water

x mol of thanol would produce 1.7 mol of water

Thus we have;

1 = 1

x = 1.7

x = 1.7 moles of ethanol would be needed.