ORIGINAL: seemefly_1
ORIGINAL: seemefly_1
Just wondering where dose all the fuel go? If I have a 8oz tank and I get .5oz of exhaust where does it go
8 oz goes in 8 oz comes out.
Law of conservation of mass states that for any chemical reactions the reactants mass will equal the mass of the product, So what ever the mass of the air / fuel that goes in the same comes out but it may be in a different form (ie it can go in or come out in any of the 4 stats , solid/liquid/gas/plasma but chemically it well be have identical number of atoms)
so what ever is in your fuel coming out your exhaust.
Steven
so if you put a bag over your exhaust you would actualy have 8oz.
Not really; you're putting in 8 oz of volume, not weight. You will have the same amount of mass by weight coming out the exhaust, not by volume. During the whole ignition/combustion process, there is some degree of phase change present, where the liquid you are putting in is coming out in a liquid/vapor/gas mixture, and as the temperature and pressure increase during the process, so does the volume. The volume of the liquid, vapor, and gases will increase at their own respective ratios. It's very difficult to measure gases by weight, but essentially that's where all the unseen product has gone (into the atmosphere).
No plasma here. That would need thousands of degrees in temperature or a supersonic mass flow rate through your engine [8D] And while I'm on the subject, there are many more than 4 states of matter, but we only experience 3 of them (liquid, solid, gas) on a regular basis on earth.
Yay science!
