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Combustion Of Alcohol's Aim To find out how much energy is required to burn methanol, ethanol, propanol and pentanol, in order to heat a beaker of water from 18ºC to 60ºC Planning In this investigation I will be burning alcohol's to heat up a water in a copper beaker. I will be burning four alcohol's, methanol, ethanol, propanol and pentanol. The aim is to find out how much energy is needed when burning these alcohol's to heat the water too 60ºC. An alcohol is a series of organic homologous compounds. Alcohol's react with oxygen in the air to form water and carbon dioxide. The reaction that is involved in burning alcohol's is exothermic because heat is given out. From this reason the reactant energy is higher than that of the product. The energy is given out when forming the bonds between the water and carbon dioxide molecules. The amount of energy produced by such exothermic reactions...

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