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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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Preface: Volume 58

Basky Thilaganathan¹

¹Fetal Medicine Unit, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackshaw Road, London, SW17 0RE, UK; Vascular Biology Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK.

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