And for any of the other compounds. So in other words, by defining that reference state, we can then figure out or measure heats of formation of a vast number of compounds.

对吧？对于任何其他的,化合物也是一样，所以换句话讲，定义了这个参考状态,我们就能算出或测量许多。

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