In 1986 an electrical power plant in taylorsville, georgia, burned 8,376,726 tons of coal, a national record at that time. assuming that the coal was 80.7 % carbon by mass and that combustion was complete, calculate the number of tons of carbon dioxide produced by the plant during the year. if 71.0 % of the so2 could be removed by reaction with powdered calcium oxide, cao, via the reaction

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C + O2 → CO2 (8,376,726 tons) x (0.80) / (12.01078 g C/mol) x (1 mol CO2/ 1 mol C) x (44.00964 g CO2/mol) = 24,555,054 tons CO2

Answer:

Carbon dioxide is produced, and as a gas, it was not captured to measure its mass.

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