Exothermic Reaction Lab Report

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The second experiment is exothermic reactions because it gives out heat energy to the surrounding and energy is released more than it absorbed. It also has a negative energy change.
In terms of bonds breaking or forming, the first experiment its forming new bonds, because when alcohols are burnt, the reaction is always overall exothermic. Because more energy is released when new bonds are form than is being consumed.
If I compared my result to the literature values, are by no means accurate. But I could not have made the experiment completely efficient in the heat transfer. However, the results were all similar for each alcohol, without the small number of anomalous results. This means that the experiment was reliable, but the values were …show more content…

The reaction gives out energy. For example HCL + NaOH reaction form NaCl + H20, there is more bond making than bond breaking in this reaction so the H is negative, which it is more exothermic.

A neutralisation reaction will be an exothermic because it’s making bonds and produces lots of energy. If the HCL is to be concentrated it will contain more hydrogen and chloride ions. As a result of this there will be more bond making and so more heat will be produced as result. When heat is being produced it shows a reaction is take place and reaction between two solutions is when bonds are being made and gives out heat.

The second experiment result is different to the accepted value, as the experiment resulted in accepted value of 57.1kjmol-1 whereas the first experiment value of …show more content…

In polar covalent electrons are not shared equally because one atom spends more time with the electrons than the atom. Polar covalent create a dipole-dipole intermolecular. The force can create type of bond between polar molecules as well as hydrogen bond. This bond is not as strong as the other types of bond and it can be easily broken. for example water, the electrons are not shared equally between hydrogen and oxygen because oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen.

ii) Polar dissolve in polar solvents and non-polar dissolve in non-polar solvents. This is because polar can molecules can undergo dipole-dipole force attractions. These electrostatic attraction between slightly positive and negatively charge poles of each molecules. However the non-polar can’t do this because they don’t have poles, instead they attract with other via dispersion force.
Temporary dipoles help dissolve simple covalent molecules in non-polar solvents. They are not very strong and the more electrons in the molecules the stronger the included

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