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Harvard
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Oct 03, 2016

How much carbon dioxide is produced by burning gasoline ...

According to the US Energy Information Administration Website: "About 19.64 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) are produced from burning a gallon of gasoline that does not contain ethanol. About 22.38 ...
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agesilaus
Explorer III
Oct 03, 2016
Just look at the formula CO2, each atom of Carbon from the fuel (weight 12) reacts with 2 atoms of Oxygen each weighing 16 each for a total of 44. So you go from 12 to 44 more than 3X the weight. Plus each atom of hydrogen in the fuel (weight 1 each) combines with oxygen to form water H2O so that's an 8 fold increase in weight. Just as an educated guess I'd say there are at least 2 hydrogens for each carbon in gasoline.

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