Chemistry internal energy heat of reaction?
Can someone explain to me the difference between "heat of reaction" and "change in internal energy" in chemical reactions? I think that heat of reaction represents the exchange of heat with the environment. And here, the heat of reaction comes from the reacting system… but with the change in internal energy…?
What is the difference here?
The first main sentence says that the change in internal energy is the sum of work and heat that exchanges the system with the environment. The measured heat of reaction is therefore only equal to the change in internal energy if no work is performed.
See Your difference between U and H. When volums work is done, the heat of reaction is equal to the change of internal energy, corrected by volums work, or more simply the change of enthalpy, because the enthalpy is only internal energy corrected by volums work.