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Investigating factors affecting the heat of combustion of alcohols.
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Robert Stewart Investigating factors affecting the heat of combustion of alcohols PLANNING SECTION Introduction Alcohols are organic substances, and consist of Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon. All alcohols are toxic but the amount that can be tolerated by the human body varies for different alcohols. For example drinking small amounts of Methanol can lead to blindness and even death. Ethanol is the only alcohol that can be drunk safely and is found in all alcoholic drinks. Throughout this investigation I am going to investigate to different factors that affect the breakdown of an alcohol. e.g. Methane (HCO) + Oxygen (O2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) + Water (H2O) Aim I am going to investigate increasing the chain length and see what effect there is on the heat of combustion. Preliminary Work The point of preliminary work is to find out what things that I should vary and keep constant. For my preliminary work I used computer software called Focus Science Investigation...
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