Chemistry 0620 · IGCSE · Air quality and climate

Air quality and climate — practice question

Oxides of nitrogen, for example $\text{NO}$ and $\text{NO}_2$, are produced in the petrol engines of cars. Reactions in the car’s catalytic converter remove them from the exhaust gases. Which row explains how oxides of nitrogen are formed in a petrol engine and gives a reaction that occurs in the catalytic converter?

  • Aformed by the reaction between nitrogen and oxygen from the air; $2\text{NO} + 2\text{CO} \rightarrow \text{N}_2 + 2\text{CO}_2$
  • Bformed by the reaction between nitrogen and oxygen from the air; $2\text{NO} + 2\text{H}_2 \rightarrow \text{N}_2 + 2\text{H}_2\text{O}$
  • Cformed by the reaction between nitrogen compounds in petrol and oxygen from the air; $2\text{NO} + 2\text{CO} \rightarrow \text{N}_2 + 2\text{CO}_2$
  • Dformed by the reaction between nitrogen compounds in petrol and oxygen from the air; $2\text{NO} + 2\text{H}_2 \rightarrow \text{N}_2 + 2\text{H}_2\text{O}$

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