Diamond Okimoto Allen

Elliott Purcell

Period 1: Project TNT

General Info

Chemical Equation:

C₇H₅N₃O₆ Þ 6CO + 2.5H₂ + 1.5N₂ + C + 3305 KJ

Trinitrotoluene yields Carbon monoxide gas, hydrogen gas, nitrogen gas, carbon gas & 3305 kilojoules of energy.

http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/units.htm

1. What is this chemical reaction used for?

· TNT (trinitrotoluene) is an explosive used for breaking any huge object into pieces.

· This chemical equation is used for finding the amount of energy released within a specific sized TNT.

http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/units.htm

2. How is the chemical reaction created?

· The reaction is created by lighting the fuse attached to the TNT. The heat burns the chemicals within the TNT creating a burst of energy released creating a large explosion.

www.unitar.org/cwm/prtr/pdf/cat5/fexplos.pdf

3. How is stoichiometry applied to this chemical reaction?

· Stoichiometry is applied to this reaction because we need to figure out how much kilojoules of energy was released in the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.

http://www.giseis.alaska.edu/AEIC/input/lahr/magnitude/energy_calc.html

4. Give a specific stoichiometric problem and solve it for each reactant and product.

· The energy equivalent of the Hiroshima fission bomb was 15,000 tons of TNT.

http://www.giseis.alaska.edu/AEIC/input/lahr/magnitude/energy_calc.html

Calculation for the amount of carbon monoxide needed.

15000 ton TNT	2000 Lbs. TNT	453.59 g TNT	1Mol. TNT	6 Mol CO	28 G CO	1 mL CO	= 1.3 x 10¹⁰ mL CO
	1ton TNT	1Lbs. TNT	227 g. TNT	1 Mol. TNT	1 Mol CO	0.7908 G CO

Calculation for the amount of hydrogen needed.

15000 ton TNT	2000Lbs. TNT	453.59 g TNT	1Mol. TNT	2.5 Mol H₂	2.0 G H₂	1 mL H₂	= 4.3 x 10⁹ mL H₂
	1ton TNT	1Lbs. TNT	227 g. TNT	1 Mol. TNT	1 Mol H₂	0.07 G H₂

Calculation for the amount of nitrogen needed.

15000 ton TNT	2000Lbs. TNT	453.9g TNT	1Mol. TNT	1.5 Mol N₂	28.0 G N₂	1 mL N₂	= 2.0 x 10⁹^mL N₂
	1ton TNT	1Lbs. TNT	227 g. TNT	1 Mol. TNT	1 Mol N₂	1.251 G N₂

Calculation for the amount of carbon gas needed.

15000 ton TNT	2000Lbs. TNT	453.59g TNT	1Mol. TNT	1 Mol C	12.0 G C	1 mL C	= 3.2 x 10⁸mL C
	1ton TNT	1Lbs. TNT	227 g. TNT	1 Mol. TNT	1 Mol C	2.27 G C

Calculation of KJ needed.

15000 ton TNT	2000Lbs. TNT	453.59g TNT	1Mol. TNT	3305 KJ	= 4.9 x 10⁷KJ
	1ton TNT	1Lbs. TNT	227 g. TNT	1 Mol. TNT

http://www.giseis.alaska.edu/AEIC/input/lahr/magnitude/energy_calc.html

5. Are any of your reactants normally the excess or limiting reactant? Explain why.

· No because we have only one reactant.

http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/units.htm

6. How much will the main chemical reaction above cost to produce?

Cost for the amount of TNT for the above reaction:

227 g TNT	15 dollars	= 17.03 Dollars
	200 g TNT

http://www.sailnet.com/collections/news/index.cfm?newsid=sailne0918

www.spies-r-us.org

7. Are their any side reactions or dangers from the original chemical reaction that must be compensated for? If yes, how is it done?

· After TNT has been started in its reaction cycle, it results in a huge explosion destroying and killing everything that comes within about 500 km or more.

http://www.nmia.com/~jwreed/text3.htm