How Do You The Difference Between Exothermic And Endothermic Reactions?
• Become familiar with the terms exothermicity and endothermicity. • Exothermicity refers to a process in a chemical reaction in which heat is being released from the reaction. • Endothermicity is defined as “the absorbance of heat by the chemical reactants from the surrounding during the chemical reaction”. These two processes of chemical reactions are based on thermodynamic transformations between reacting molecules and their products. • Usually exothermic reactions occur in chemical processes which are thermodynamically favored and thermodynamically driven. This type of chemical processes is characteristic of highly energetic compounds which contain chemical bonds that are rich in energy such as C-H bonds abundant molecules. Examples of such compounds are the hydrocarbon group of molecules which include for example methane and ethane. These two typical hydrocarbons contain much energy in the form of calories that can be released by a process of combustion of the hydrocarbon. This pr
