Hess Law Essay

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Title: Application of Hess’s Law to determine the Enthalpy Change of Hydration of Magnesium Sulphate (VI). Theory: In this experiment, we are going to determine the hydration of magnesium sulphate(VI) refers to the addition of anhydrous magnesium sulphate(VI) to water to form hydrated magnesium sulphate(VI) . However, the enthalpy change of hydration is impossible to measure by calorimetry as hydration is very slow process. Therefore, we can apply Hess’s Law to calculate the enthalpy change. The equation of the experiment by applying Hess’s Law as below: | ΔH | |MgSO4(s)+7H2O(l)---------------->MgSO4˙7H2O(s) | | | |ΔH1 (aq) (aq) ΔH2 | | | | | |Mg2+(aq) + SO42-(aq) + 7H2O(l) | ΔH = enthalpy change of hydration of MgSO4(s) ΔH1 = molar enthalpy change of solution of anhydrous magnesium sulphate (VI) ΔH2 = molar enthalpy change of solution of magnesium sulphate (VI)-7-water. As both ΔH1 and ΔH2 can be found experimentally, the enthalpy change of hydration of magnesium sulphate(VI) can be calculated as follow ΔH = ΔH1 - ΔH2 Procedure: A. To determine the enthalpy change of solution of

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