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Dissolving KCl in water

Oggas - 10-5-2011 at 12:27

I have searched the internet and google has unfortunately failed me. So my question is, what is the enthalpy change in the system when i dissolve 1 mole of potassium chloride in water?

Thanks in advance!


entropy51 - 10-5-2011 at 13:10

The enthalpy of solution of KCl is about 17 kJ/mole, according to several references found using ....Google. I used the phrases "enthalpy of solution" and "potassium chloride". You can look at the Google hits and take your pick of which value to use.

[Edited on 10-5-2011 by entropy51]

blogfast25 - 11-5-2011 at 05:11

Here’s the NBS (now NIST) certificate for the dissolution enthalpy needed to form a solution of 0.111 mol.kg<sup>-1</sup>:

https://www-s.nist.gov/srmors/certificates/1655.pdf?CFID=139...

17.58 kJ/mol