Question

Prateek took a piece of burning charcoal and collected the gas evolved in a test tube. Write down word equations of all the reactions taking place in this process?

Answer 1

When charcoal burns in the air it produces an orange glow on the charcoal layer. Charcoal (i.e. Carbon) burns with a gaseous oxygen molecule to produce carbon dioxide as the product.

The chemical reaction can be written as,
$C_{\left(s\right)}+O_{2\left(g\right)}\to C{O}_{2\left(g\right)}$