What is Hess's law?????
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What is meant by Hess's law?
The Hess' law states that the change of enthalpy in a chemical reaction (i.e. the heat of reaction at constant pressure) is independent of the pathway between the initial and final states. ... Addition of chemical equations leads to a net or overall equation.
What is Hess's law and why does it work?
Hess's law is due to enthalpy being a state function, which allows us to calculate the overall change in enthalpy by simply summing up the changes for each step of the way, until product is formed. All steps have to proceed at the same temperature and the equations for the individual steps must balance out.
Hess's law states that the standard reaction enthalpy is the sum of the standard enthalpies of the intermediate reactions into which the overall reaction can be divided, while each occurs at the same temperature.