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Originally Posted by lovehamr
And just so that we are clear on this; water (gaseous) IS a major byproduct of the combustion process. For those who didn’t take chemistry in high school (or don’t remember it) gasoline would be represented by C8H18. Its combustion, in the easiest sense of the word is to carbon dioxide and water and could be expressed thusly: 2C8H18 + 25O2 ~> 16CO2 + 18H2O
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Absolutely correct, combustion creates water vapor. In a perfectly performing combustion engine, the hydrocarbons react with Oxygen and turn to water (vapor) and CO2. The Nitrogen would simply pass straight on through into the exhaust. This is why emissions controls have been able to reduced the CO2 output, thus resulting in a cleaner burning engine.