carbon dioxide?

Question

If you could break up a carbon dioxide molecule, would you still have carbon dioxide? Can you please explain further on why / why not?

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& In what ways is sand in a bowl like a liquid?
in what way is it different?

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Answer 1

If you could break up a carbon dioxide molecule (which can only be done by chemical means) you would have one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms

Sand in a bowl is like liquid in that it does not have a definite shape, but does have a definite volume. Solids have both a definite shape and volume. It is different in that it is not fluidic.


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Answer 2

Carbon dioxide is a molecule that is composed of one carbon atom with two oxygen atoms (that’s the di oxide part). When you break the CO2 molecule into its component elements you have two elements that have different properties than the original molecule.

It is like breaking up a water molecule H2O in which you get 2 hydrogen molecules and one oxygen molecule. Both of those are gases and are not in any way like water.

If you mix dirt and water you have mud a new substance, but if you dry out the mud and then grind it you return it to the dirt you started with. The combination and separation processes are similar to how elements combine to form new chemical substances. In this way most all of the things around us can be broken down to less than 100 elements (those elements higher than 100 are usually radioactive and decay away pretty quickly and are usually man made in a particle accelerator).

To put it another way eggs, water, cooking oil, and the cake box mix creates a cake, which is different than any other the other items. In the case of a cake there is a physical reaction that the mix undergoes while cooking that changes the batter into a cake. Once you do that you can’t go back and uncreate the cake, because it has undergone a chemical reaction.

Sand in a bowl assumes the shape of the container like a liquid can, and you can pour the sand our of the bowl like liquid; but sand is dry. There are four states of matter; solid (sand), liquid (water), gas, and plasma. Every substance can move through the four states by increasing the temperature. For example; ice is a solid at a temperature below freezing, when it warms up it becomes a liquid and when it is heated it becomes a vapor (a gas). If you superheated the water then it would become a plasma. Normally the only place you find a plasma though is in the sun, however the hottest cutting torches created by man are plasma cutters. They use a super hot stream of plasma to cut the hardest metal.

In your example you have a solid and a liquid, the reason sand behaves like a liquid is that it is a collection of a whole lot of small solids, as if you filled that bowl with marbles or bee bees. Each grain of sand operates like an individual marble or bee bee and it rolls around free in the bowl. To properly replicate the example you would need a bowl full of tiny ice cubes. If you rolled them around in the bowl then they would be like the sand crystals.

Answer 3

1 no, if you broke the bonds you'd have two O atoms, and a C atom, because carbon dioxide is made up of CO2.

2 they both take the shape of their container. normally solid objects do not, but seeing as a particle of sand is so small i guess you could get away with that answer. they are different in the fact that one is solid and one is liquid

Answer 4

There appears to be no way that CO2 can be broken down.

Very fine sand is composed of tiny grains and, as such, they can be made to flow as they do when poured out of a container. The material in an 'Hour Glass', is classed as a 'Fluid' as it is able to FLOW from the upper chamber to the lower through a fine capillary tube.
The difference between sand and water is that sand is solid particles and water is liquid.

(A FLOWING, finely divided, catalyst powder (Solid particles of Aluminium Oxide and Silica), is used In Petroleum Refining in a 'Fluid Catalytic Cracking' Unit that produces Gasolines and LPG components from larger molecules of Hydrocarbons. It's carried out at over 500°C).