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Offline pretzalisa

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Calculating Internal Energy
« on: May 04, 2009, 09:09:30 AM »
One mole of ethanol converts to its vapour at a contant temperature of 298K. deltaH = 43kJmol-1. What is deltaU?

Not even sure what equation to use for this one, tried deltaU= deltaH - delta(nRT) but that didn't ge the right answer.

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Re: Calculating Internal Energy
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2009, 02:27:58 AM »
The correct equation would be ΔU = ΔH - Δ(PV).  Since a liquid takes up much less volume than a vapor, you could assume that the volume of the liquid is essentially zero (or if you're feeling particularly adventurous, you can look up the density).

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