A 1.615-g sample of benzoic acid, C7H6O2 (122.12 g/mol) was burned in a bomb calorimeter with excess oxygen. The temperature of the calorimeter and the water before combustion was 17.49 °C; after combustion the calorimeter and the water had a temperature of 27.28 °C. The calorimeter had a heat capacity of 832 J/K, and contained 0.837 kg of water. Use these data to calculate the molar heat of combustion (in kJ) of benzoic acid.
Thermochemistry
Thermochemistry can be considered as a branch of thermodynamics that deals with the connections between warmth, work, and various types of energy, formed because of different synthetic and actual cycles. Thermochemistry describes the energy changes that occur as a result of reactions or chemical changes in a substance.
Exergonic Reaction
The term exergonic is derived from the Greek word in which ‘ergon’ means work and exergonic means ‘work outside’. Exergonic reactions releases work energy. Exergonic reactions are different from exothermic reactions, the one that releases only heat energy during the course of the reaction. So, exothermic reaction is one type of exergonic reaction. Exergonic reaction releases work energy in different forms like heat, light or sound. For example, a glow stick releases light making that an exergonic reaction and not an exothermic reaction since no heat is released. Even endothermic reactions at very high temperature are exergonic.
A 1.615-g sample of benzoic acid, C7H6O2 (122.12 g/mol) was burned in a bomb calorimeter with excess
oxygen. The temperature of the calorimeter and the water before combustion was 17.49 °C; after combustion
the calorimeter and the water had a temperature of 27.28 °C. The calorimeter had a heat capacity of 832 J/K,
and contained 0.837 kg of water. Use these data to calculate the molar heat of combustion (in kJ) of benzoic
acid.
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