Question. Define and explain Hess’s law of constant heat summation. Explain it with examples and give its application.
Answer.
Hess’s Law: If a reaction takes place in one step or in several steps, the overall enthalpy change is the same for each route. Or total heat change for a reaction is same and does not depend upon the route.
Explanation: Let us assume that reactant A can be converted to D directly in a single step and heat evolved is . If reaction have indirect root from A B C as shown below.
Question: Hess’s law helps us, to calculate the heat of those reactions, which can’t be carried out in laboratory. Explain it.
Answer.
Application of Hess’s Law:
In many cases, direct determination of enthalpies of formation and enthalpies of reactions are not possible. This may be due to incompletion of reaction or side reaction or slow speed of reaction. For example, heat of formation of CO can not be measured directly due to the formation of CO2 with in it. If the enthalpy of combustion of graphite to form CO2 and the enthalpy of combustion of CO to form CO2 are known, we determine the enthalpy of formation for CO.
The oxidation of carbon can be written as follows.
So enthalpy change for the formation of CO is 110.0 kJmol-1.
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