Chapter 9 Flashcards
What is enthalpy?
Is the measure of heat energy within a chemical system. It is written as the letter H.
What does a chemical system refer to?
The atoms, molecules or ions which make up the chemicals.
What is enthalpy change?
It is the difference in enthalpies within the products and reactants. It is calculated by H(products)- H(reactants). It can be either positive or negative, it just depends on whether the products have more or less energy than the reactants.
What is the conservation of energy?
The law of conservation states that energy can’t be created or destroyed in the reaction. When a chemical reaction involves meant to be change heat energy is transferred between the system and the surroundings. The system is the chemicals – the reactants and products
The surroundings being apparatus – lab everything apart from the chemical system.
In terms of the conservation of energy what is the universe?
It is everything including the system and surroundings
What is an exothermic change?
It is when energy is transferred from the system to the surroundings increasing the temperature.
What is an endothermic change?
It is when energy is transferred from the surroundings to the system which causes a decrease in temperature.
What are the signs of exothermic and endothermic enthalpy changes.
Exothermic has a negative enthalpy change
Endothermic has a positive enthalpy change
Describe a complete reaction?
In a chemical reaction the bones need to break but input energy with new bonds being formed in the products completing the reaction.
What is the activation energy?
It’s the minimum amount of energy required for a reaction to take place (break the bonds). The energy input required to break the bonds acts as an energy barrier to the reaction.
Describe the speed of small activation energies?
It occurs rapidly as the energy needed to break the bonds is readily.
Describe the speed of large activation energies?
A large activation energy means that a very large energy barrier is present so direction will occur very slowly or not at all with a large amount of energy needed to break the bonds.
Describe an endothermic reaction?
It’s when energy is transferred from the surroundings to the system. The chemical system takes in heat energy from the surroundings. Any energy gained by the chemical system is balanced by energy lost by the surroundings. The enthalpy change is positive with the temperature of the surroundings decreasing as they lose energy.
Describe an exothermic reaction?
It’s when energy is transferred from the system to the surroundings. The chemical system releases energy into surroundings. Any energy loss by the chemical system is balanced by the same energy gain by their surroundings. The enthalpy change is negative with the temperature of the surroundings increasing as they gain energy.
What is the standard enthalpy change?
It refers to entropy change occurring under standard conditions the units are KJmol
What is the standard pressure?
100 KPa (close to 1 atm which is 101KPa)
What is the standard temperature?
298K (25 degrees Celsius )
What is the standard state?
Is the physical state of a substance under standard conditions the standard state is at 100 kPa and 298K
What is the standard concentration?
It is 1 mol/dm³.
What is the standard enthalpy change of reaction?
It is the enthalpy change that a common accompanies a reaction in the molar quantities. It is shown in a chemical equation under standard conditions with all reactants and products in their standard states. It refers to a state equation and its value depending on the balance numbers
What is the enthalpy change of formation?
It is the enthalpy change that occurs when one mole of a compound is formed from its elements under standard conditions with all reactants and products in their standard states.
What is the enthalpy change of formation in elements?
It is zero as there is no chemical change taking place.