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N2O formation enthalpy is just 82kJ/mol. For comparison, water is 240kJ/mol. It doesn't sound so bad, but when translated into grams, it's 1.86kJ/g for N2O and
by cyberax 1y ago
N2O formation enthalpy is just 82kJ/mol. For comparison, water is 240kJ/mol.
It doesn't sound so bad, but when translated into grams, it's 1.86kJ/g for N2O and 13.3kJ/g for water.
In other words, when burning a gram of hydrogen, you get about 120kJ of energy. When decomposing a gram of N2O, you barely get 2kJ.