An investigation into the heat of combustion of alcohol's
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Wednesday 19th June 2002 / Jonathan Hayes / 10T An investigation into the heat of combustion of alcohol's AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE HEAT OF COMBUSTION OF ALCOHOL'S 1 PLANNING 1 INTRODUCTION 1 APPARATUS 1 METHOD 2 DIAGRAM 2 HOW I WILL MAKE MY EXPERIMENT A FAIR TEST 2 SAFETY 2 PRELIMINARY WORK 2 RESULTS 3 WHAT I HAVE FOUND OUT FROM MY PRELIMINARY WORK 3 MY RESULTS TO MY EXPERIMENT 3 RESULT AVERAGES 4 ANALYSIS OF RESULTS 4 THE ENERGY TRANSFERRED TO THE WATER. 4 ENERGY TRANSFER PER GRAM OF ALCOHOL 5 THE HEAT OF COMBUSTION PER MOLE 5 MY GRAPH 6 CONCLUSION 7 EVALUATION 7 HOW I COULD MAKE MY EXPERIMENT MORE RELIABLE. 7 ARE MY RESULTS ACCURATE? 8 WHAT I WOULD CHANGE IF I REPEATED THIS EXPERIMENT. 8 Planning Introduction I am trying to determine the heat of combustion for the first five alcohols, which are; ethanol, propanol, butanol, pentanol and hexanol. I am trying to determine whether the amount of Carbon atoms on the molecule affects the heat energy given out by the molecule when burned. I believe that as the size of the molecule increases and the chain of carbons grows longer, then the heat energy...


