Hello,

 

What is a calorimeter and how is the energy transferred?Can't find any information anywhere.

 

My experiment is about finding the enthalpy of combustion of alcohols.

Where would the energy conversions be there? and where would the energy be lost at times?

calorimeter calculates the heat. q=mc delta t t is the tlast - t0

 

ideal clcmeter doesnt gives any heat to outside or gets from outside . so it only measures your reactions heat. for example you make a exothermic solution. so you need to measure your solutions c m and the time of reaction you ll find q(enthalpy). but you cant know the c so you make the reaction in clcmeter it ll show the q.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimetry

 

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