Which is more flammable an organic or inorganic?

Answer 1

Usually the answer to this will be Organic compounds. But its not really true.

This is because the question is not worded correctly. It needs to say many other details such as: In the presence of what gas or other compounds? At what temperature? At what pressure?

And then, there needs to be a multiple choice of a few answers to choose from. If you leave it open ended like this, you literally can make the argument for a 'ba-zillion' different scenarios where inoraganics and organics are each better than the other at 'burning'.

Take a simple simple example "Underwater", or "In a vacuum", or "at 500 degrees Celcius". There are a ton of different scenarios that make the original question a Trick Question.

Answer 2

The ammount of carbon and hydrogen atoms in the compound. A combustion reaction involves exposing carbon and hydrogen atoms to oxygen and heat to produce carbon dioxide and water. Thus if there are more carbon and hydrogen atoms in a compound it will tend to be more flammable . The equation for this reaction is:

C + 2H2 + 2O2 --> CO2 + 2H2O

Answer 3

none cares about the answer

actually someone cares you know.. organic compounds tend to be flammable than organic compounds just like ethanol

Answer 4

Usually the answer to this will be Organic compounds.