The ABC cereal company is developing a new type of breakfast cereal to compete with a rival
Question:
The ABC cereal company is developing a new type of breakfast cereal to compete with a rival product that they call Brand X.
You are asked to compare the energy content of the two cereals to see if the new ABC product is lower in calories, so you burn samples, each of mass 1.00 g, of the cereals in oxygen in a calorimeter with a heat capacity of 600. J · (°C)–1. When the Brand X cereal sample burned, the temperature rose from 300.2 K to 309.0 K.
When the ABC cereal sample burned, the temperature rose from 299.0 K to 307.5 K.
(a) What is the heat output of each sample?
(b) One serving of each cereal is 30.0 g. How would you label the packages of the two cereals to indicate the fuel value per 30.0-g serving in joules and in nutritional Calories (kilocalories)?
Step by Step Answer:
Chemical Principles The Quest For Insight
ISBN: 9781464183959
7th Edition
Authors: Peter Atkins, Loretta Jones, Leroy Laverman