Explosives used in mining contain TNT, or trinitrotoluene.
b. TNT is actually a mixture of isomers of trinitrotoluene. Draw the line-angle formulas for two other possible isomers.

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Explosives used in mining contain TNT, or trinitrotoluene.

b. TNT is actually a mixture of isomers of trinitrotoluene. Draw the line-angle formulas for two other possible isomers.

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All right. Hi, everyone. So this question says that xylene used in the chemical industry is a derivative of benzene with two methyl groups or ch three as substituent sketch the line angle structures or its two other isomers aside from perz ilene. So recall first and foremost that benzene in a line angle structure is represented as a hexagon with alternating double bonds. And the reason for this is because line angle structures are shorthand representations of organic compounds. What that means is that carbon atoms are not explicitly drawn, rather, they are implied by the corners of the hexagon itself. Additionally, hydrogen atoms are implied as well unless the hydrogen atom is attached to an element that is not carbon. In that case, you would drop. But with this being said, what I want to point out here is that xylene or all isomers of xylene are examples of dye substituted benzene rings, meaning that we have a benzene ring with only two substituents branching off of it. Now recall also that simple dye substituted benzene have their own naming system attached or associated to them. So to understand this, I want to draw your attention to the benzene ring that I drew earlier, let's say that I have a simple dye, substituted benzene with substituents A and B. Now let's say that substituent A is on carbon one of the benzene rink. If substituent B is on carbon too, then that would be called Ortho. If substituent B was on carbon three, that's me. And if substituent B is on carbon four, meaning on the opposite side of substituent A, then that is per. So in this case, the isomer we were given was paras, that means that the two methyl groups of xylene would be on opposite sides of the benzene ring or on positions one and four. So with this in mind, we can go ahead and draw the remaining isomers from the two remaining positions. One of the isomers would be Ortho xylene and the other would be meazy. So if we are given pera, then the remaining isomers would be Ortho followed by meta. So Ortho xylene would have the methyl groups on adjacent carbons or on positions one and two. And meta xylene would have the methyl groups on positions one and three. And there you have it. Here are the structures of the remaining two isomers which were Ortho xylene and meta xylene. And with that being said, thank you so very much for watching. And I hope you found this helpful

Explosives used in mining contain TNT, or trinitrotoluene.
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b. TNT is actually a mixture of isomers of trinitrotoluene. Draw the line-angle formulas for two other possible isomers.

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