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What is the effect of ignoring any heat transfer between the water and a styrofoam cup...

What is the effect of ignoring any heat transfer between the water and a styrofoam cup calorimeter?
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when in the bomb calorimeter experiment, we ignore any heat transfer between the styrofoam cup and the hot water
so, in reality, some heat is lost to the styrofoam cup of the bomb calorimeter
due to this the final equilibirum temperature is lower than what is expected theoretically ( as some energy is lost from the equation)
hence due to ignoring of this heat transfer, the equilibrium temperature that is calculated theoretically is greater than the practically measured equilibirum temeprature

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