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Energy Changes

The energy change of reactions

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  • Chemistry Paper 1

Overview

Breaking bonds as endothermic and making bonds as exothermic, bond energy, calculating the overall energy change from the energy needed to break reactant bonds and the energy released forming product bonds, why the change is negative for exothermic and positive for endothermic reactions, and worked bond energy calculations.

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Key term

Describe the energy changes involved in breaking the bonds in the reactants and making the new bonds in the products.

Key term

Explain why a reaction can be exothermic overall even though energy has to be supplied to start it.

Key term

What two kinds of change to chemical bonds take place in every chemical reaction?

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  1. 1

    What two kinds of change to chemical bonds take place in every chemical reaction?

    Model answer

    Bonds in the reactants are broken and new bonds are made in the products.

  2. 2

    Why must energy be supplied to the reactants at the start of a reaction?

    Model answer

    Energy is needed to break the bonds in the reactant molecules.

  3. 3

    What happens to energy when new bonds form in the products?

    Model answer

    Energy is released to the surroundings.

  4. 4

    Is breaking a chemical bond exothermic or endothermic?

    Model answer

    Endothermic, because energy must be supplied to break it.

  5. 5

    Is forming a chemical bond exothermic or endothermic?

    Model answer

    Exothermic, because energy is released as the bond forms.

  6. 6

    What is meant by the bond energy of a particular bond?

    Model answer

    It is the energy needed to break that bond, and the same amount of energy is released when that bond is made.

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