At 11:12 am 28-02-05 -0900, you wrote: >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
Phew! I'm glad you two sorted that one out satisfactorily. I was beginning to wonder who to believe in view of Fred's frosted spec's. ;-) Cheers Frank
