Calorimetry Research Papers

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Have you ever been sitting there and just wondered about various things dealing with some things in chemistry known as calorimetry or thermochemistry? No, yes, maybe, well whatever your answer you were really thinking yes so I’m going to explain these topics to you in this paper, and teach you how they work so you can figure these things out if you ever run into them I a real life situation.
We’re going to start off with calorimetry, going through all of the basic things such as what it actually is, how to write a calorimetry equation, and even what a calorimeter is and how to use one. Time to start off calorimetry in the best way: with the definition: because you should know what it is before learning other stuff about it. Calorimetry is the quantative measurement of the heat required or evolved during a chemical process and is just a general term for anything to do with this including finding the heat required to the equations used to figure everything out. Now that you know what calorimetry is we can move on to the calorimeter and how it works.
A calorimeter is an instrument for measuring the heat of a reaction during a well-defined process. There are 2 different types of calorimeters, the first one being what is known as a bomb calorimeter. This is a more advanced calorimeter, it depicts constant volume using the internal energy change between the reactants and the products. This device is more accurate, but also more expensive, so just in case you ever need one but don’t have one of these, there is a simpler, cheaper calorimeter consisting of two foam cups, a thermometer, a glass stirrer and a cork stopper. This one measures constant pressure and the enthalpy change during the reaction. Like I said above, t...

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... combustion of paraffin wax through the use of calorimetry, and I believe that that was met. It was met with finding the heat of combustion with a 7% error. It could have been more accurate, but that will be discussed in a moment. The purpose of the lab was met by burning the candle and seeing a change in mass. The heat of combustion was then calculated using this and other data from the lab. So yes, I believe that the purpose of the lab was met during the course of the experiment.
Now to talk about errors. The lab was completed, and the purpose met, but with a 7.14% error. This error could have been caused by different things. The candle could have been burned for too long, or not long enough, there could have been faulty measurements and various other things. Overall however I believe that this lab worked out fine and errors were almost minimalized.

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