{"id":638,"date":"2021-06-24T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2021-10-26T01:24:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T01:24:20","slug":"how-many-oxygen-atoms-are-required-for-the-complete-oxidation-of-one-mole-of-pyruvic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/how-many-oxygen-atoms-are-required-for-the-complete-oxidation-of-one-mole-of-pyruvic-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Oxygen atoms are required for the complete oxidation of half of a Glucose molecule?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Solution:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 glucose molecule requires 6\noxygen molecule for complete oxidation to get 6 carbon dioxide and 6 water\nmolecule along with ATP molecule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; However,\nfor complete oxidation of half of a glucose molecule requires half of 6 oxygen\nmolecule (i.e.\n3 oxygen molecule), which results into getting\nof half of 6 carbon dioxide (i.e. 3 carbon dioxide molecule) and half of 6 water molecule (i.e. 3 water\nmolecule) along with half ATP molecule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Moreover, as it is asked in terms of oxygen atom then answer will be 3&#215;2=6, as one oxygen molecule has 2 oxygen atom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"925\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/261.png\" alt=\"How many Oxygen atoms are required for the complete oxidation of half of a Glucose molecule?\" class=\"wp-image-661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/261.png 925w, https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/261-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/261-768x561.png 768w, https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/261-710x519.png 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solution:\u00a0 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 glucose molecule requires 6 oxygen molecule for complete oxidation to get 6 carbon dioxide and 6 water molecule along with ATP molecule. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; However, for complete oxidation&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[98,100,94,93,96,97,102,99],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question-answer","tag-atoms","tag-cellular","tag-complete-oxidation","tag-glucose","tag-mole","tag-molecule","tag-pyruvic-acid","tag-respiration","list-style-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicoras.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}