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Thank you so much for this comprehensive reply - I see where my faulty thinking was. I incorrectly assumed the amount of heat (q) evolved would be the same under both conditions. It all makes sense now ;D

Greetings! I've been brushing up on some thermodynamics recently and came across a perplexing sentence in my notes and text from undergrad. It says that for a combustion reaction, such as the combustion of heptane: C7H16 (l) + 11O2 (g) ---> 7CO2 (g) + 8H2O (l) That this process carried out at...