internal combustion engine?
The substance primarily responsible for heat loss in
the combustion process is
sulphur?carbon?hydrogen?nitrogen? in my book the answers is nitrogen? but why?
i think nitrogen is explosives right? does the book wrong? please if the book is correct please explain
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Nitrogen gas is not explosive, in fact, it won't even burn.
In an ICE, most of the heat loss is the exhaust, which is a large flow of very hot air.
Since air is about 78%Nitrogen, this is a dominant factor.
The only other major contributor wold be carbon, since during combustion, Oxygen (from the air) and carbon (from the fuel) make CO2, which also goes out the exhaust, but in smaller quantities.