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Calorimetry

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Calorimetry measures the heat transferred during a process by observing the temperature change of a calibrated calorimeter.

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A reaction run inside an insulated calorimeter changes its temperature by an amount that reveals how much heat that reaction released or absorbed.

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Calorimetry measures a temperature change and infers the system's heat from it — it never observes the reaction's heat flow directly.