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This is an excellent resource for IB chemistry teachers, it is easy to use and navigate your way through.
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- Dear Geoffrey, On pg. 102 of your excellent IB guide, I may be mistaken, but reading under Gibbs energy change and equilibrium constant' , but if Q is 0 lnQ=1, does that not make DG= DG(Standard) + RT, instead of DG= DG(Standard). Kind...
- Thank you for spotting this Radhika - I've corrected it now.
- In q 4 hcl is limiting so hydrogen should be half of mole of hcl..?
- Hello Xiaodan, I think you have put it very well and are correct. Students intuitively realise that energy needs to be put in to break a chemical bond but it is less obvious that the same amount of energy is given out when the same bond is...