Hess's Law of Constant Heat Summation
Hess's Law of Constant Heat Summation: Overview
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Important Questions on Hess's Law of Constant Heat Summation
The following two reactions are known:
The value of for the following reaction

Enthalpy of is negative. If enthalpy of combustion of and are x and y respectively, then which relation is correct:

Given that, the molar combustion enthalpy of benzene, cyclohexane and hydrogen are and , respectively, the molar enthalpy of hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexane is

Hess's law of constant heat of summation states that regardless of the multiple stages or steps of a reaction the total enthalpy change of the reaction is the sum of all changes.

Calculate the enthalpy of hydrogenation of ethylene from the following data. Bond energies of , and are and .

State and explain Hess's Law of constant heat summation.

Consider the chemical reaction, . What is of the reaction if direction of reaction is reversed?

Consider the chemical reaction, . What is of the reaction if the equation is multiplied by .

Enthalpies of formation of CO(g), CO2(g), N2O(g) and N2O4(g) are -110, -393, 81 and 9.7 kJ mol-1 respectively. Find the value of for the reaction N2O4(g) + 3 CO(g) N2O(g) + 3CO2 (g)

Silanes are silicon hydrides of general formula and have several applications. From the data given below, the bond dissociation enthalpy of bond (in ) is
Given:
of the reaction is
Bond dissociation enthalpy for
Bond dissociation enthalpy for
(Note: Report your answer after rounding up to the nearest integer value.)

The bond dissociation energies for , and are , and respectively. The enthalpy of sublimation of iodine is . What is the standard enthalpy of formation of ?

The statement “The change of enthalpy of a chemical reaction is same whether the reaction takes place in one or several steps” is

If enthalpy of an overall reaction along one route is and , , …representing enthalpies of reactions leading to same product then is

Hess’s law is applicable to heat of

Consider the following reaction
What is the relation between

Given,
with the help of above reactions, find out the heat of formation of

Given that
The enthalpy of formation of CO will be

What is the enthalpy change for if heat of formation of respectively?

The values of heat of formation of are The heat of formation of the reaction
will be

;
; . The heat of reaction of
