Chemistry f) Glucose is the primary sugar in your bloodstream, supplying energy to your body. Dieticians are therefore very interested in the energy resource that it represents and need to investigate the enthalpy changes that accompany its reactions. A constant-volume calorimeter showed that the heat generated by the combustion of 1.000 mol glucose molecules in the reaction C6H12O6(s) + 60₂(g) 6CO2(g) + H₂O(g) is 2559 kJ at 298 K, AE = -2559 kJ. What is the change in enthalpy for the same reaction? (R-8.314J/K/mol).
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.
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