The scientist responsible for this statement provides an alternate name for disilver telluride and discovered that oxidation of sugars results in saccharic acid. One consequence of this law unrelated to electricity is Kirchoff's law, and it is what allows for the calculation of lattice energy in the Born-Haber cycle. This law can be derived by considering a series of intermediates in a thermodynamic sequence and noting that the quantity it concerns is a state function, so its change is equal to the difference in the bond enthalpies of final products and initial reactants. For 10 points, identify this law of constant heat summation that states that the enthalpy change of a reaction is path-independent.
The scientist responsible for this statement provides an alternate name for disilver telluride and discovered that oxidation of sugars results in saccharic acid. One consequence of this law unrelated to electricity is Kirchoff's law, and it is what allows for the calculation of lattice energy in the Born-Haber cycle. This law can be derived by considering a series of intermediates in a thermodynamic sequence and noting that the quantity it concerns is a state function, so its change is equal to the difference in the bond enthalpies of final products and initial reactants. For 10 points, identify this law of constant heat summation that states that the enthalpy change of a reaction is path-independent.
The scientist responsible for this statement provides an alternate name for disilver telluride and discovered that oxidation of sugars results in saccharic acid.
 Hess' law of constant heat summation [prompt on “law of enthalpy”]