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To the nearest 0.1 g, how many grams of a candle wax from a different brand of candle can be burned in 5-gallon container sealed with air?  Assumptions (may or may not be needed): Complete combustion to CO2 and H2O; Candle wax reacts in a ratio of 1 mol wax: 40 moles O2; MW (wax) = 370 g/mol, Air = 21% oxygen, R= 0.082 L.atm.K-1.mol-1, 1 gallon = 3.785 L, T=278 K, P = 1 atm

To the nearest 0.1 g, how many grams of a candle wax from a different brand of candle can be burned in 5-gallon container sealed with air?  Assumptions (may or may not be needed): Complete combustion to CO2 and H2O; Candle wax reacts in a ratio of 1 mol wax: 40 moles O2; MW (wax) = 370 g/mol, Air = 21% oxygen, R= 0.082 L.atm.K-1.mol-1, 1 gallon = 3.785 L, T=278 K, P = 1 atm

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To the nearest 0.1 g, how many grams of a candle wax from a different brand of candle can be burned in 5-gallon container sealed with air? 

Assumptions (may or may not be needed):

Complete combustion to CO2 and H2O; Candle wax reacts in a ratio of 1 mol wax: 40 moles O2; MW (wax) = 370 g/mol, Air = 21% oxygen, R= 0.082 L.atm.K-1.mol-1, 1 gallon = 3.785 L, T=278 K, P = 1 atm

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