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Chemistry Student Please Help

i am doing a resit paper, and i got my paper back, i don't have the mark scheme, so i was wondering if any chemistry could tell me if i have the correct answer.

If i have the wrong answer, where have i gone wrong,

ntiric acid can be made by reacting water, nitorgen dioxide and oxygen according to the following equation:

H2O + 2NO2 + 1/2O2 ----> 2HNO3

with standard enthalpy vaule ^H (delta H) -128kjmol-1

with delta H of formation/kjmol-1 values for

H20 (-286)
NO2 (+34)
02(0)

using this data calulate a value for the standard enthalpy of formation of nitric acid.
Reply 1
my answer to this **correction** is

-286 + 2(34) +(-128)= the standard enthalpy of formation which is -346??

is that right of wrong,

thanks for any help.
Reply 2
you have to divide it by two as there are 2 moles of HNO3 formed
Reply 3
thank you sooo muchhh!!! :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

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