Day 4

Liquid hydrazine, N2H4, is used as a rocket fuel because its enthalpy of combustion is very
exothermic. The thermochemical equation for the combustion of hydrazine is as follows:

N2H4(l) + O2(g)  N2(g) + 2H2O(g) ΔH = -534.0 kJ

(a) 1.0 g of hydrazine is burnt in a bomb calorimeter. Calculate the temperature change
if the total heat capacity of the bomb calorimeter and its content is 5.85 kJ 0C-1.

(b) Calculate the enthalpy of formation of hydrazine if the enthalpy of formation of water
vapour is -242.0 kJ mol-1. (8M)

(relative atomic mass N, H, O are 14.0, 1.0, 16.0 respectively)