At 9:19 AM 2/28/5, Frederick Sparber wrote: > Thread was: Explosive Antimony on Platinum, Cold Fusion in 1855. :-) > >Horace Heffner wrote >> >> Note - 19,600 cal/g of Sb is only 161 cal/mol. >> >A gram-mole of Sb is ~121.6 grams. That would make it 9.97 Megajoules/mole. > [snip] >> Hopefully I got the numbers about right. >> >You might consider rechecking them. I doubt there would be any attention >paid if >the values were near what you calculated. :-)
Right you are! I thought that looked funny. Ran it through the calculator twice. Just another example that precision does not count when you have systematic error. Nothing like dividing when you should multiply. I now get 9.979 MJ/mol. Regards, Horace Heffner
