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Offline davidbbk

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Lattice Energy
« on: July 25, 2007, 12:43:43 AM »
What can't the lattice energy of an ionic compound be directly calculated by experimental means ???

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Re: Lattice Energy
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2007, 03:50:28 PM »
Well, lets start from some fundamentals:

1)  What chemical reaction defines the lattice energy?
2)  What might be the difficulties of performing this reaction to directly calculate the lattice energy?
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