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Highlight Problem EOC 8.101
- Scientists have grown progressively more
worried about the potential for global warming
caused by increasing atmospheric carbon
dioxide levels.
- The world burns the fossil fuel equivalent of
approximately 9.0 × 1012 kg of petroleum
per year.
- Assume that all of this petroleum is in the form of octane (C8H18) and calculate how much CO2 in kilograms is produced by world fossil fuel combustion per year.