A student conducts a calorimetry experiment on an unknown metal object. The unknown metal object with a mass of 82.522 g is heated to 100.5 °C and then transferred to a coffee-cup calorimeter containing 67.225 g of water at 22.3 °C. If the metal object and the water reach a final temperature of 30.5 °C and the heat absorbed by the water was calculated to be 2310 J. What is the specific heat of this metal object? (The specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g°C)
Thermochemistry
Thermochemistry can be considered as a branch of thermodynamics that deals with the connections between warmth, work, and various types of energy, formed because of different synthetic and actual cycles. Thermochemistry describes the energy changes that occur as a result of reactions or chemical changes in a substance.
Exergonic Reaction
The term exergonic is derived from the Greek word in which ‘ergon’ means work and exergonic means ‘work outside’. Exergonic reactions releases work energy. Exergonic reactions are different from exothermic reactions, the one that releases only heat energy during the course of the reaction. So, exothermic reaction is one type of exergonic reaction. Exergonic reaction releases work energy in different forms like heat, light or sound. For example, a glow stick releases light making that an exergonic reaction and not an exothermic reaction since no heat is released. Even endothermic reactions at very high temperature are exergonic.
A student conducts a calorimetry experiment on an unknown metal object. The unknown metal object with a mass of 82.522 g is heated to 100.5 °C and then transferred to a coffee-cup calorimeter containing 67.225 g of water at 22.3 °C. If the metal object and the water reach a final temperature of 30.5 °C and the heat absorbed by the water was calculated to be 2310 J. What is the specific heat of this metal object? (The specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g°C)
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