i know this is probably not what this forum is for, but it's in 'Science' so...
what are the equations for the burning of ethanol, propanol, butanol, pentanol, hexanol? if anyone knows please tell me!

Have you tried Boots?

or matches?

You sound like my lil sister. She asks me mad stuff like this. AAaaaaaaaargh * as I burn...slowly.....*

ah, never mind people
i'm not sure that's the sort of question boots get every day
Thufir, i bet your sis is doing gcse science, it's terribly fun you know.

No, we've gone through the GCSE stage. Now onto undergrad stuff. Will it ever.....end......! Bless her, but she needs to go out for a beer more often. Or at least start sniffing ethanol, propanol, butanol, pentanol and hexanol.

ah, they keep that stuff in safe glass jars in our lab...toxic or summin. damn, i could not carry that on to university..i would turn into a total geek.

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Originally posted by emailia:
i know this is probably not what this forum is for, but it's in 'Science' so...
what are the equations for the burning of ethanol, propanol, butanol, pentanol, hexanol? if anyone knows please tell me!

I've a degree in Chemistry which I never use since I work in IT, but the equations are pretty simple.

Ethanol is

CH3CH2OH ---> 2 CO2 + 4 H2O

Propanol is

CH3CH2CH2OH ---> 3 CO2 + 5 H2O

etc adding one CH2 group each time as you move up the range of alcohols and getting one extra CO2 and H2O produced in combustion up to hexanol which is:

CH3CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2OH ---> 6 CO2 + 8 H2O

Why do you ask?

B*llocks, I can't count.

All of the equations have one H20 too many.

Ethanol produces 3 H20
Propanol produces 4 H20
etc

Sorry about that.

^ I did that... it was quite hard. Especially when I got to the sports forums.

Eh?

This ginger troll in a tiara moment was brought to you by Celia Fate and the letters "E" and "H".

Is that an oxymoron?

Or is that just a Dummkopf of cattle?

It's not an oxymoron, it's just a moron.

No sharpness at all?

Oxy has left the forums in a big huff, so it's def simply a moron.

Haha, huff. They're so good. But not as good as hoff.

the man with the marshmellow feet will never catch me