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Solid Iron (II) Oxide reacts with Solid elemental iron and oxygen gas to create Iron (III) Oxide. Calculate ∆S * and determine the value for K of this reaction at 25C.
The calculations are as given below [take delta S and delta H vaues from standard data chart]
delta S* = delta Sproducts - delta Sreactants
= 87.40 - 60.75
= 26.65 J/mol.K
delta H* = delta Hproducts - delta Hreactants
= 87.40 - (60.75 + 27.28 + 205.03)
= 87.40 - 293.06
= -205.66 kJ/mol = -205660 J/mol
Feed the values into,
lnK = -delta H*/RT + delta S*/R
= 205660/8.3145 x (25+273) + 26.65/8.3145
= 83.004 + 3.205
= 86.209
K = 2.76 x 10^37