#introduction
Hello, I'm Christian.
I'm a high school chemistry teacher in the Chicago suburbs and enjoy (almost) every minute of it.
I spend my free time gaming, coding personal projects, and reading sci-fi.
@codepuppy CO2 is absurdly stable, which is why it's a combustion product and why Venus is full of it.
Each C=O bond in a CO2 molecule has a bond enthalpy of 804.4 kJ/mol. That works out to 8.342 eV so photodissociation would need a photon with λ > 148.63 nm. That's scary far UV.
A krypton excimer laser (146 nm) could break it, but a good catalyst would be far more efficient. :)
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