Estimating the Energy Released on the Explosion of a Liquid Nitromethane (a liquid) undergoes the following reaction on explosion:
CH _{3} NO _{2} \rightarrow 0.2 CO _{2}+0.8 CO +0.8 H _{2} O +0.7 H _{2}+0.5 N _{2}Estimate the energy released on the explosion of nitromethane.
Data:
\Delta_{ f } \underline{G}_{ NM }^{ o }=-13.0 kJ / mol \Delta_{ f } \underline{H}_{ NM }^{ o }=-111.7 kJ / mol