The Student Room Group

Reply 1

so enthalpy of formation is used to make the product and ethene. enthalpy of combustion is used to calculate formation of H20. so combustion of ethene isnt needed
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Reply 2

Ohhh, thanks
I hadn't realised that the enthalpy of combustion for hydrogen was also just the enthalpy for formation for H2O
very helpful :smile: