Re: chemical potential energy


"Taras_96" <taras.di@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: >Let's put it this way...
: >Take a gallon can of petrol and throw it off a bridge. It hits
: >the disused railway line below with some energy, right?
: >Then you burn it.
: >What happened to the energy if you burn it before you throw
: >off the bridge?
:
: Well, in the latter case, the gravitational potential energy would
: still be there as the byproducts are still on the bridge!

Right answer, both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are
heavier than air. Don't lie under the car repairing it in the garage
with the engine running, I know of an 18-year-old that died that
way.
But what of a hot air balloon?



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