CHEM 122H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chemical Equation, Joule
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We shall start of this secion with this very useful equaion: h= u+ ngasrt. A thermochemical equaion is a statement of a chemical equaion and the corresponding reacion enthalpy, the enthalpy change for the stoichiometric amounts of substances in the chemical equaion. For reacions in which no gas is generated or consumed, litle expansion work is done as the reacion proceeds and so the diference between h and u is negligible, so we can set u= h. Using the gas equaion pv=nrt, and taking the diference between enthalpy inal and iniial, we get the equaion h= hinal - hiniial = u + (ninal-niniial)rt. This is how we got the equaion from the irst sentence of these notes. Standard reacion enthalpies: because the heat released or absorbed by a reacion depends on the physical states of the reactants and products, when calculaing the reacion enthalpy we need to specify the state of each substance.