Solid fuel in the booster rockets for spacecraft consists of aluminum powder as the fuel and ammonium perchlorate as the oxidizing agent.

If a rocket launch burns 2.200 * 10³ kg of aluminum, calculate the energy produced in joules. Calculate the volume of the gas produced, assuming it was cooled back to 298 K at 1 atm. The standard enthalpy of formation of solid ammonium perchlorate is -295.3 kJ/mol.

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3 NH4CIO4(s) + 3 Al(s) Al2O3(s) + AIC13(s) + 6 H₂0(g) + 3 NO(g)