With reference to the Chemistry Put to Work box on explosives, (a) use bond enthalpies to estimate the enthalpy change for the explosion of 1.00 g of nitroglycerin. (b) Write a balanced equation for the decomposition of TNT. Assume that, upon explosion, TNT decomposes into N₂(g), CO₂(g), H₂O(g), and C(s).

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