Heat Capacity in Adiabatic Vessels: Corrections for Errors

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The discussion centers on the implications of heat capacity in adiabatic vessels during chemical reactions. It establishes that when a reaction produces sufficient heat, the adiabatic assumption fails due to heat transfer outside the vessel. To maintain adiabatic conditions, a water bath at the reaction temperature is necessary to absorb excess heat, ensuring no heat transfer occurs. This approach highlights the need for precise control of thermal conditions in experiments involving finite heat capacities.

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just trying to get my head around heat capacity here for an experiment;

if conducting a reaction in an adiabatic vessel, of which its material has a finite heat capacity, does this mean that if sufficient heat is produced within the vessel (through a chemical reaction), that the adiabatic assumption will no longer apply because heat will be transferred outside of the vessel?

if that's true, how could you correct for the errors that may arise in the adiabatic assumption?
 
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zass said:
just trying to get my head around heat capacity here for an experiment;

if conducting a reaction in an adiabatic vessel, of which its material has a finite heat capacity, does this mean that if sufficient heat is produced within the vessel (through a chemical reaction), that the adiabatic assumption will no longer apply because heat will be transferred outside of the vessel?

if that's true, how could you correct for the errors that may arise in the adiabatic assumption?

Every material has finite capacity as heat capacity degradation is true when [tex]T\to\infty[/tex] and heat flows from 'warm' to 'cold'. For the adiabatic assumption to be maintained, I imagine that a water bath with a temperature equal to the temperature of the reaction in the vessel would have to be employed to keep the process truly adiabatic. The energy required to keep the bath at the temperature of the vessel to ensure that no heat transferred would be equal to that produced in the vessel.
 

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