Energy from Oxidation of Food - A Cheeto
Here is a Cheeto. According to the nutrition information on the package, 21 Cheetos provide 150 nutritional Calories. One nutritional Calorie is one kilocalorie, so each Cheeto can release about seven kilocalories or 30 kJ of energy. When a Cheeto is placed into liquid potassium chlorate the vigorous, highly exothermic reaction releases about 30 kJ.
The size of the movie file is 2.5 MB and its duration is 32 seconds. The name of the movie file is "CHEETO2.MOV" and it is located in the folder "MOVIES/CHEETO".
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