The toy rockets were engineered so well that now you have dreams of creating a real life replica that can carry people to the space station. Aspirations of becoming rich and famous overcome your thoughts. You know that when this compound (Ammonium perchlorate) is heated at 200 C, it breaks down to a variety of gasses, including N2(g), Cl2(g), O2(g), and H2O(g). You know that the rocket will fly due to the sudden appearance of hot gaseous products in a small initial volume that will result from the rapid increase in the pressure and temperature. What total pressure of gas would be able to be produced at 800 C by igniting 7.0X10^5 kg of NH4ClO4 and allowing it to expand to a volume of 6.4X10^6 L? (ideal gas behavior)
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.
The toy rockets were engineered so well that now you have dreams of creating a real life replica that can carry people to the space station. Aspirations of becoming rich and famous overcome your thoughts. You know that when this compound (Ammonium perchlorate) is heated at 200 C, it breaks down to a variety of gasses, including N2(g), Cl2(g), O2(g), and H2O(g). You know that the rocket will fly due to the sudden appearance of hot gaseous products in a small initial volume that will result from the rapid increase in the pressure and temperature. What total pressure of gas would be able to be produced at 800 C by igniting 7.0X10^5 kg of NH4ClO4 and allowing it to expand to a volume of 6.4X10^6 L? (ideal gas behavior)
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