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'Enthalpy of Combustion'.
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Planning Alcohols are very similar to alkanes and alkenes; they are a family of related compounds - a homologous series. Each member of the series has the O-H group in its molecule. The general formulas for alcohols is Cn H2n+1 OH, where n is the number of carbon atoms. There are six alcohols that I will be using and they are Methanol (CH3OH), Ethanol (CH2H5OH), Propan-1-ol (C3H7OH), Butan-1-ol (C4H9OH), Pentan-1-ol (C5H11OH) and Octan-1-ol (C8H17OH). In this experiment I will be burning a range of alcohol's to heat up a container of water. I will be trying to get reliable results that will tell me how the number of carbon atoms relate to the energy released as heat , otherwise known as the 'Enthalpy of Combustion'. The combustion process is the making and breaking of bonds. In this experiment, the alcohols will have an exothermic reaction because heat is given out. The breaking...
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