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Chemistry Forums for Students => Undergraduate General Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: davidbbk on July 25, 2007, 12:43:43 AM

Title: Lattice Energy
Post by: davidbbk on July 25, 2007, 12:43:43 AM

What can't the lattice energy of an ionic compound be directly calculated by experimental means ???

Title: Re: Lattice Energy
Post by: Yggdrasil on July 25, 2007, 03:50:28 PM

Well, lets start from some fundamentals:

1)  What chemical reaction defines the lattice energy?
2)  What might be the difficulties of performing this reaction to directly calculate the lattice energy?