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Hess's Law

Hess's law lesson

This lesson uses two methods to find the heat of reaction for a given reaction. First it looks at combining reactions according to Hess's law and their heats of reaction, and then it discusses using standard heats of formation of the reactants and products to find the overall heat of reaction.

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  • Hess's law
  • law of conservation of energy
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