You could run the reaction, take solid iron gaseous oxygen, form iron oxide, measure the heat of formation of it, tabulate it.

你可以进行一个反应,用固态铁和氧气生成氧化铁，测量它的生成热，列成表格。

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We can tabulate them. We can know them, and then when we have reactions that inter-convert different compounds, we can calculate the heat of reaction is just the difference between the heat of formation of the reactants, and the heat of formation of the products, right.

种化合物的生成热，可以把它们列成表,可以认知它们，而当我们要处理，在不同化合物间转变的反应时,我们只要计算反应物和,生成物的生成热之间的不同,就能计算出反应热。

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Goncourt, one of the writers, the Goncourts, the one who hadn't died yet, was no friend of ordinary people, but there's an amazing scene in his memoirs when he's down by the Hotel de Ville and he sees these women chained together, being walked around, and he says, "What, where are they going?"

龚古尔,龚古尔两兄弟都是作家,当时还活着的那一个,和平头百姓从来合不来,但在他的回忆录里有这样惊人的一幕,他路过市政厅的时候,看见一些被锁链串成一列的妇女们,正在被游街,他就问,"怎么,她们这是要去哪"

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