Experimental values are always lower than published ones, and the exam wants you to explain why rather than just note it. Heat escapes to the air, warms the apparatus, and some fuel burns incompletely. This is the real knowscape from knowhere, not a picture of one. Drag it. Watch what actually changes.
One –OH changes everything. It drags up boiling points, opens the door to hydrogen bonding, and hands the molecule a whole reaction map: ferment to make it, dehydrate or substitute to transform it, oxidise it up the ladder from alcohol to aldehyde to acid. Ethanol is the case study — fuel, solvent and product in one.
Experimental combustion values are always lower than theoretical data book values because heat escapes to surroundings, the apparatus absorbs energy, and combustion is often incomplete in open systems.
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