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Calorimeters are useful to determine the heat released or absorbed by a chemical reaction. Coffee cup calorimeters are designed to operate at constant (atmospheric) pressure and are convenient to measure heat flow (or enthalpy change) accompanying processes that occur in solution at constant pressure. A different type of calorimeter that operates at constant volume, colloquially known as a bomb calorimeter, is used to measure the energy produced by reactions that yield large amounts of heat and...

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¹Merck KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, Post Code: F135/002, 64293, Darmstadt, Germany; Department of Development and Regeneration, Biomedical Sciences, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), p/a University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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