On August 4, 2020 a fire in a warehouse in the Port of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, spread to a large store of ammonium nitrate. Within seconds an explosion rocked the city with the equivalent of approximately 0.50 kilotons of TNT. Using the reaction and standard enthalpy of formation data given, calculate the AH reaction. Then calculate the mass of ammonium nitrate needed to release this amount of energy. 1 ton TNT 4.184 x 106 kJ 2NH4NO3 (s) 2N2 (g) + O2 (g) + 4H₂O(g) =
Thermochemistry
Thermochemistry can be considered as a branch of thermodynamics that deals with the connections between warmth, work, and various types of energy, formed because of different synthetic and actual cycles. Thermochemistry describes the energy changes that occur as a result of reactions or chemical changes in a substance.
Exergonic Reaction
The term exergonic is derived from the Greek word in which ‘ergon’ means work and exergonic means ‘work outside’. Exergonic reactions releases work energy. Exergonic reactions are different from exothermic reactions, the one that releases only heat energy during the course of the reaction. So, exothermic reaction is one type of exergonic reaction. Exergonic reaction releases work energy in different forms like heat, light or sound. For example, a glow stick releases light making that an exergonic reaction and not an exothermic reaction since no heat is released. Even endothermic reactions at very high temperature are exergonic.
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