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Okay, so to answer this problem it is useful to think of the overall reaction that's given as the result of a series of steps that need to occur for that reaction to happen.
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If we know the energies required for each of those steps, all we need to do is add them up to get the final reaction enthalpy.
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So let's look at different steps that we need to perform for that reaction to happen.
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We start with the potassium in solid state.
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The first thing that we need to do is take that potassium from a solid state to a gas state because it needs to react with the chlorine that's also in the gas phase.
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They both need to be in the same phase for them to react.
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This reaction is basically a sublimation reaction and we are given the enthalpy of sublimation for potassium which is 64 kilojoules per mole.
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So that would be the energy required to fulfill the first step.
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Let's look at the second step.
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In the second step we're going to take that gas, the potassium in gas form and ionize it.
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Why do we want to ionize it? because the final product is an ionic salt.
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So we need the ion there to bond with the negative chlorine anion and form the solid.
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So we need to ionize the potassium and that is essentially the ionization energy for potassium that's also given and it's 419 kilojoules per mole.
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The third step is now we're going to look at the chlorine gas...