How many grams of oxygen is required to burn 1 mole of zinc?

The combustion reaction of zinc in oxygen looks like this: 2Zn + O2 = 2ZnO

1 mol of zinc is spent 1/2 mol of molecular oxygen with a molar mass of 32 g.

In our case, we need 0.5 * 32 = 16 g O2.



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