4NH3 (g) + 502 (g) - >6H20g) + 4NOg) What is the enthalpy change for this reaction?

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4NH3 (g) + 502 (g) - >6H20g) + 4NOg) What is the enthalpy change for this reaction?

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Melvin Taylor · Answer 1

Enthalpy is energy of bonds broken - energy of bonds formed. Here, the NH3 and O2 are broken and H2O and NO are formed. So the energy to break the NH3 bonds is 3 times the amount of energy it takes to break a N-H single bond (because there are three of them in a NH3 molecule) and then multiplied by 4 because there are four particles.

So the energy of the bonds broken is 12x the energy to break a N-H single bond plus 5x the amount of energy to break an O-O double bond (you don’t multiply this by anything because in each O2 molecule there is only one bond).

The energy of the bonds formed is 6*2 = 12 Times the amount of energy for a O-H single bond plus 4 times the amount of energy required to break a N-O double bond.

Subtract energy of bonds broken - energy of bonds formed and this is the change in enthalpy.

To know what type of bond it is, draw the Lewis structure.