Yeast make alcohol in the absence of oxygen by a process calledfermentation (i.e., anaerobic respiration). Complete fermentationof one of the sugar glucose (C6 H12O6) will generate two moles of ethanol (C2H6 O), two moles of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas,and tow moles of the important molecule ATP (C10H16 N5 O13 P3), usingin cellular transfers. You perform an experiment to make alcohol,so you set up an anaerobic fermentation system using yeast. You add135 grams of glucose to your system and allow the sugar to befermented to completion, trapping all fermentation products. (a)How many molecules of ATP were produced in your experiment? What isthe total mass of the ATP. (b) The volume of the fermenation tankwas 15 Liters, and the temperature was kept constant during theexperiment at 25 0C. Is it possible to determine thefinal tank pressure of the CO2 gas produced by thisexperiment? Will the Ideal Gas Law work here? (c) What was thetotal volume of ethanol produced in this experiment? The density ofethanol is 0.789g/mL.
