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  • Hess's Law: Calculating Enthalpy Changes with Reaction Multiplication
    To multiply a reaction by a factor in a Hess law problem, you need to multiply all the coefficients in the reaction by that factor, including any coefficients for the enthalpy change.

    Let's say we have the following reaction:

    $$A + B → C + D \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ΔH = -100 kJ$$

    If we want to multiply this reaction by 2, we would get:

    $$2A + 2B → 2C + 2D \ \ \ \ \ \ ΔH = -200 kJ$$

    So the enthalpy change for the multiplied reaction is simply the original enthalpy change multiplied by the factor we used to multiply the reaction.

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