Why Combustions Are Always Exothermic, Yielding About 418 kJ per Mole of O2

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Is there an intuitive answer why burning is very exothermic?

Posted by Bohan Xu, at chemistry.stackexchange.com, 29 Nov 2022

Water and carbon dioxide are much lower in energy than hydrocarbon and oxygen. Is there an intuitive answer for this? Is this…

Does energy come from fuel or oxygen? (surprise?)

Posted by Jan, at chemistry.stackexchange.com, 18 Jul 2019

Question: Is it oxygen or fuel that releases energy during burning? The answer from this article: Why Combustions Are Always…

Why is liquid oxygen more reactive than gaseous oxygen?

Posted by Vikki, at chemistry.stackexchange.com, 31 Mar 2019

Liquid oxygen is somewhat hairy to work with, as, if it comes in contact with essentially anything combustible, it has an…

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