C9 Products and effects of combustion

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What is needed for complete combustion to take place?
A good supply of oxygen.
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What is a hydrocarbon?
A compound that only contains hydrogen and carbon atoms.
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When a hydrocarbon fuel burns completely, what are the products?
Carbon dioxide and water.
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What is produced during incomplete combustion that can make the flame sooty?
Carbon
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Which is the most dangerous product of incomplete combustion?
Carbon monoxide
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When fuel burns inside a car engine at high temperatures and under high pressure, which gas becomes oxidised?
Nitrogen
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Why is nitrogen oxide an atmopsheric pollutant?
Nitrogen oxides dissolve in rainwater to form nitric acid.
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Where does sulfur dioxide come from during combustion reactions of hydrocarbon fuels?
Sulfur impurities are present in fossil fuels.
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What environmental issue is associated with the production of sulfur dioxide?
Acid rain.
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What is a hydrocarbon?

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A compound that only contains hydrogen and carbon atoms.

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When a hydrocarbon fuel burns completely, what are the products?

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What is produced during incomplete combustion that can make the flame sooty?

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Which is the most dangerous product of incomplete combustion?

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