When 40.0 ml of 1.00 m h2so4 is added to 80.0 ml of 1.00 m naoh at 20.00°c in a coffee cup calorimeter, the temperature of the aqueous solution increases to 29.20°c. if the mass of the solution is 120.0 g and the specific heat of the calorimeter and solution is 4.184 j/g • °c, how much heat is given off in the reaction

in 1783 cavendish was working with his hydrogen gas and found that when he burned it and condensed the vapor it was water. this was very significant since it disproved the greek theory of elements completely since water was not a simple substance but the product of two gases. it was lavoisier who hearing of the experiment gave cavendish's gas the name hydrogen ("water-producer") and added that hydrogen burned by combining with oxygen and that water was a hydrogen-oxygen combination.

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