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Why would you have to subtract the heat capacity of the calorimeter when calculating the heat of the reaction?Question
Why would you subtract the heat capacity of the calorimeter when calculating the heat of the reaction?
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DrBob222
In an enthalpy experiment
total heat = (mass H2O x specific heat H2O x delta T) + Ccal x (delta T)
I may misunderstand the question but I don't think you subtract the heat capacity of the calorimeter.
total heat = (mass H2O x specific heat H2O x delta T) + Ccal x (delta T)
I may misunderstand the question but I don't think you subtract the heat capacity of the calorimeter.
Liz
I think that the question is saying why you do subtraction in the equation Qrxn=-Qcal-Qsoln