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Heat of Dissolution of NO in N2O4
« on: February 15, 2011, 10:13:43 AM »
Hello nice people!

To compute the heat of formation of a solution of NO in N2O4, I have already the heat of formation of NO, N2O4, and still need the heat of dissolution.
(A) Would you know it? Or have some better method? Ask the solvation army maybe?

Yes, it's a rocket propellant, how did you guess...? 33%wt NO lowers the freezing point from -10°C down to -107°C, especially useful on Mars. Even better, it makes the solution endothermic, enabling my seducing scheme for pumping propellants, described there
http://saposjoint.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=2272#p27535

To compute the heat of dissolution, I decided to use the available pressure-temperature curve of NO in N2O4 exactly as is done with liquid-vapour equilibrium when inferring the heat of vaporization, by telling that P varies like exp(-H/RT).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausius%E2%80%93Clapeyron_relation#Applications
(B) Do you agree?

For instance at 30%wt between 298K and 328K, gas pressure increases from 7.3 to 22.4 atm, leading to 30.4kJ/mol heat of dissolution.
(C) Could you kindly check?

I feel this is a lot. Vaporization of water takes 40.5kJ/mol and of NO 13.8kJ/mol... But maybe this explains why NO dissolves in N2O4 while NO doesn't liquefy at 3.33 times that pressure.
(D) Do you feel 30.4kJ/mol is credible?

Comments, suggestions welcome!
Marc Schaefer, aka Enthalpy
« Last Edit: February 15, 2011, 10:51:01 AM by Enthalpy »

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