Find out more about how to work safely in science. Combustion reactions can be described using word and symbol equations. The fuel used in gas barbeques is butane. Butane molecules contain only ...

the inert gas nitrogen will be present. Air is about 79% nitrogen by volume and 21% oxygen by volume. For a stoichiometric combustion reaction in this case each mole of oxygen will be accompanied by 3 ...

A RECENT letter by Godsave 1 described experiments on the combustion-rates of single liquid-fuel droplets. The general case of the combustion of liquid fuel in gas streams is being studied at this ...