Uploaded December 2016 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago

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Combining chemicals can generate different reactions; Exothermic, when heat is released by the chemicals being combined and Endo-thermic, when heat is required to produce a chemical reaction. To learn more about predicting reaction heat, combustion, and how they can relate to your home furnace, please visit AIChE’s Essentials of Chemical Engineering for Operators course at aiche.org/ela117