To what temperature must magnesium carbonate be heated to decompose it to MgO and CO2 at 1

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To what temperature must magnesium carbonate be heated to decompose it to MgO and CO2 at 1 atm? Is this higher or lower than the temperature required to decompose CaCO3? Values of ∆Hof (in kJ/mol) are as follows: MgO(s), 601.2; MgCO3(s), 1111.7. Values of So (in J/K) are as follows: MgO(s), 26.9; MgCO3(s), 65.9. Data for CO2 are given in Tables 6.2 and 18.1.
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General Chemistry

ISBN: 978-1439043998

9th edition

Authors: Darrell Ebbing, Steven D. Gammon

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