Anyone have an old chemistry book?

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-12-14 11:32pm

Can someone tell me the heat of reaction for burning iron, and give me the bibliographic information for the Chemistry book, please? I threw out all of my old chem. books when I left college. Trust me, it's for a good cause.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-12-14 11:34pm

I can find out on Monday. Use my teacher's book for hi chemistry classes.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-12-15 12:09am

Captain Lennox wrote:I can find out on Monday. Use my teacher's book for hi chemistry classes.

Thanks, Captain Lennox. It's really important.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2002-12-15 12:24am

The only hard part is from what to what(I know you said burning iron) but because I would need the persay the before since that heat of reaction is the value of q required to return a system to the given temperature at the completion of the reaction.

I hope this helps...if not sorry.

Phil Skayhan · Post by **Phil Skayhan** » 2002-12-15 01:40am

Do you mean for the production of metallic iron from iron ore like in a blast furnace? I have a graphic from my book which may be helpful. Also has the redux equations.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-12-15 03:16pm

Phil Skayhan wrote:Do you mean for the production of metallic iron from iron ore like in a blast furnace? I have a graphic from my book which may be helpful. Also has the redux equations.

That would be it. It comes from an obscure SW novel quote, so I'm using the combustion of iron as a lower-limit.

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-12-15 03:52pm

The melting point according to my book is 1539°C for pure iron.
In a blast furnace, the iron reacts with carbon reducing the melting point to only ~1200°C

Phil Skayhan · Post by **Phil Skayhan** » 2002-12-16 02:54am

Master of Ossus wrote:
Phil Skayhan wrote:Do you mean for the production of metallic iron from iron ore like in a blast furnace? I have a graphic from my book which may be helpful. Also has the redux equations.
That would be it. It comes from an obscure SW novel quote, so I'm using the combustion of iron as a lower-limit.

Chemistry 5th edition
Steven S. Zumdahl
Susan A. Zumdahl
pg 1009

Sorry I didn't get this up earlier but I just got done with a 14 hour day at
work. Hope it's helpful.

EDIT: More specific info from General Chemistry 4th edition, Ralph H. Petrucci pg 724

Reduction of iron oxide:
3CO + Fe2O3 --> 2Fe + 3CO2 (900 Celcius Edit2: this is only an approximation)