Methanol is burned as fuel in some race cars. This makes it clear that the reaction is
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Methanol is burned as fuel in some race cars. This makes it clear that the reaction is spontaneous once methanol is ignited. Yet the entropy change for the reaction 2 CH3OH(ℓ) + 3 O2(g) → 2 CO2(g) + 4 H2O(ℓ) is negative. Why doesn’t this violate the second law of thermodynamics?
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