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suling

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Why is it useful to know the molar heat of combustion of hydrocarbons? I understand that I can help with determining the efficiency of them as fuels but apart from that...
 
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Because the prac that you did on it is an essential prac and they can ask you about it in the HSC.
 
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Casper_18 said:
Because the prac that you did on it is an essential prac and they can ask you about it in the HSC.
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Yeah about how and why experimental values differ from theoretic values:
- we assume complete combustion but you can see soot forming at the base of the beaker
- our heating methods were not 100% efficient because some heat could have been lost to the air.

Other things molar heat of combustion is useful for is for comparing ethanol and octane as a fuel:
ethanol is 1364Kj/mol and octane is 5467kJ/mol.
 
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