If U home brew great topic -
The kids are studying yeast and anerobic respiration - I thought I would have a quick review as it has been years and the rust has set in.. or has it???
Source - 13yo's chemical science theory book

What is wrong with this???



Far from balanced and not exactly anerobic..

(loved the smell of home brew(ing))
Cheers
AP

Well spotted, AquaPlow, however, IMHO, the text is correct, and the formula is just a bit misleading due to lack of explanations.

My organic chemistry is very rusty, but I strongly suspect that 6O2 is not really meant as inorganic "oxygen", but as a representation of some of the enzymes that happen in yeasts (zymase?).

Anyway, ethanol fermentation is really considered anaerobic.

The reaction is, of course, exothermic, i.e. "energy" (well, heat), gets released, but this does not lead to imbalance. Some reactions just require a bit of energy to be added or removed for them to happen...