Re: State of the Union Address

>I guess those high school students aren't the only ones with no clear
>idea of the way the world works.  While salt water does not ordinarily
>explode, in this case salt water is the ultimate product -- but massive
>heat released when acids and bases join and recombine to produce salts
>(in this case table salt) and water.

Interesting thread. While we're on the topic of chemistry and heat:

Does anyone happen to know how to figure the energy requirements or yields
for a reaction? My college chemistry book doesn't say a whole lot about it.
In fact it doesn't say enough to actually be useful at all; it gives
energies for four or five different bonds in a table and then launches into
a really bad explanation of how to calculate this. 

If I have to use a table of bond energies is there one available online? Or
is there a simpler way to just calculate the bloody things?

I really ought to take more chemistry courses before I get my diploma. Or at
the very least audit them.

Get a Chemisty 101/2 book. You must have been in the bone head chemistry
class.

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Anonymous wrote:

> >I guess those high school students aren't the only ones with no clear
> >idea of the way the world works.  While salt water does not ordinarily
> >explode, in this case salt water is the ultimate product -- but massive
> >heat released when acids and bases join and recombine to produce salts
> >(in this case table salt) and water.
> 
> Interesting thread. While we're on the topic of chemistry and heat:
> 
> Does anyone happen to know how to figure the energy requirements or yields
> for a reaction? My college chemistry book doesn't say a whole lot about it.
> In fact it doesn't say enough to actually be useful at all; it gives
> energies for four or five different bonds in a table and then launches into
> a really bad explanation of how to calculate this. 
> 
> If I have to use a table of bond energies is there one available online? Or
> is there a simpler way to just calculate the bloody things?
> 
> I really ought to take more chemistry courses before I get my diploma. Or at
> the very least audit them.
> 
> 


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