Skip to content

Crunch Chemistry

The ultimate A level chemistry resource

  • Fundamentals
    • Maths skills for chemists
    • Calculations for AS and A level Chemistry
    • Working with gases
    • Atoms and ions
    • Bonding and Structure
    • Environmental chemistry
  • Inorganic chemistry
    • Redox reactions
    • Explaining the chemistry of Group 2 metals
    • Explaining the chemistry of the Group 7, the halogens
    • Nitrogen, nitrogen oxides and the nitrogen cycle
    • Trends in Period 3
    • Transition metal chemistry
  • Organic chemistry
    • How do organic reactions actually happen?
    • Stabilising carbocations through inductive and mesomeric effects
    • Alkanes and Crude Oil
    • Alkenes
    • Halogenoalkanes
    • Alcohols
    • Carbonyl compounds
    • Organic nitrogen compounds
    • Benzene and other aromatic molecules
  • Biochemistry
    • The chemistry of fats, oils and soap
    • Amino acids and polypeptides
    • What is optical isomerism?
    • Understanding the structure of proteins
    • How do enzymes catalyse reactions?
  • Physical chemistry
    • Acids, bases, buffers and pH
    • Chemical equilibria
    • Electrochemistry
    • Enthalpy changes
    • Entropy
    • Reaction kinetics
    • Solubility
  • Analytical chemistry
    • How does electromagnetic radiation affect molecules?
    • Atomic absorption and emission spectroscopy
    • Mass spectrometry
    • Infrared spectroscopy
    • Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
    • Mixed spectra long answer exam question practice
    • Everything you need to know about chromatography
    • Qualitative analysis
  • Newsletters …
  • 1:1 chemistry tuition …

Tag: enthalpy

Cat Links Calculations, Physical chemistry

Enthalpy cycles, Hess cycles, thermochemical cycles

Posted on May 5, 2022April 25, 2025 Sarah Parkes

What is enthalpy exactly? An enthalpy change is the heat transferred at constant pressure by a chemical reaction Heat changes

Continue readingEnthalpy cycles, Hess cycles, thermochemical cycles

Cat Links Calculations, Exam question practice, Physical chemistry

How to calculate enthalpy of neutralisation

Posted on May 4, 2022April 24, 2025 Sarah Parkes

Determining either the enthalpy change of neutralisation, or the enthalpy change for a classic displacement reaction (they are pretty much

Continue readingHow to calculate enthalpy of neutralisation

Cat Links Calculations, Physical chemistry

How to calculate enthalpy of combustion of a fuel

Posted on May 3, 2022April 24, 2025 Sarah Parkes

You can calculate an experimental value for the enthalpy change of combustion for a fuel very simply – this is

Continue readingHow to calculate enthalpy of combustion of a fuel

Cat Links Physical chemistry

Getting up to speed in thermochemistry

Posted on May 3, 2022October 2, 2024 Sarah Parkes

Thermochemistry is all about the energy changes that happen alongside chemical reactions.   Chemical reactions either release heat (exothermic) or

Continue readingGetting up to speed in thermochemistry

Cat Links Physical chemistry

Understanding entropy

Posted on April 12, 2022September 1, 2025 Sarah Parkes

Why does water freeze when you place it in a freezer? Certainly not because the freezer sucks the heat out

Continue readingUnderstanding entropy

Recent Posts

  • Why are carrots orange?
  • Explaining the reactivity of substituted benzenes
  • Friedel-Crafts reactions in benzene
  • Electrophilic substitution reactions of benzene
  • How do enzymes catalyse reactions?

Recent Comments

No comments to show.
  • Contact me!
  • About me ….
Copyright © 2025 Crunch Chemistry | Signify Education by WEN Themes
Scroll Up