OCR A Specimen Paper 1 Q18

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18 A student is asked to calculate G at 25 C for the combustion of butan-1-ol. The teacher provides two 16 pieces of information.The equation for the combustion of butan-1-ol. CH3(CH2)3OH(l)Standard entropies of butan-1-ol, oxygen, carbon dioxide and water. + 6O2(g)4CO2(g) + 5H2O(l) Equation 2 CH3(CH2)3OH(l) So/ J K1 mol1 228 O2(g) 205 CO2(g) 214 H2O(l) 70 The student carries out an experiment using the apparatus below and obtains the following results. The specific heat capacity of water is 4.18 J g1 K1. Specimen Mass of burner and butan-1-ol before burning / g Mass of burner and butan-1-ol after burning / g Initial temperature / C Maximum temperature reached / C 98.997 98.738 18.5 39.0OCR 2014 H432/01<br />
 Use the information on the previous page to calculate G, in kJ mol1, for the combustion of 17 butan-1-ol according to Equation 2 at 25 C. Show all your working. Specimen G =kJ mol1 [7]OCR 2014 H432/01 Turn over<br />

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