Help finding Literature Sources (Solubility of Potassium Nitrate)

[AdkinsJr]

I am typing up a lab report for an introductory chemistry course. Basically we determined the entropy and enthalpy for the dissolution of potassium nitrate in water. The exp. values I found are close to each other but I'm supposed to compare to literature sources and I'm finding frustratingly that it takes more time to find a source than to type the paper.

I can't find any handbooks that have this data and I don't know how to search the literature for this, it's just too specific because I have to have the thermodynamic data under similar conditions. The temperatures were in the 300-330 Kelvin Range, my exp. values are:
186.31 J/K*mol 48.244kJ/mol
186.04J/K*mol. 48.158kJ/mol.

Any tips or help would be appreciated.

 

[wilsont23274]

One approach you might take is to look into thermodynamic databases, like the one offered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These databases contain data from numerous scientific sources, including experimental values for thermodynamic properties in the temperature range you're interested in. Additionally, you can also search the literature for papers that report values for potassium nitrate dissolution in water in the temperature range you're interested in. You can use a scholarly search engine, like Google Scholar, to help you find relevant papers.