I was tagged by The Unforgiving Minute a week ago which was right in the middle of Boomershoot. I'm still recovering and trying to catch up on things so this is a bit late.

The rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
2. Find page 123.
3. Find the first five sentences.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

When I read that I was tagged "the nearest book" was over a 1/4 mile away in someone else's house so I decided to use the nearest book to my bed where I do nearly all my book reading these days.

From Explosives Engineering by Paul W. Cooper.

Page 123 is page 5 of "Table 9.1 Heats of Formation of Inorganic Compounds" and is not broken down into sentences. I'm going to page 124 which has some actual sentences on it.

Hydrochloric acid, HCl, will react with sodium hydroxide, NaOH, to form sodium chloride, NaCl, and water, H₂O.

HCl + NaOH --> NaCl + H₂O

Calculating the standard heat of reaction from the standard heats of formation, we have:

ΔH_r⁰ = [ΔH_f⁰(NaCl) + ΔH_f⁰(H₂O)]_products - [ΔH_f⁰(HCl) + ΔH_f⁰(NaOH)]_reactants

I would tag my daughter Xenia Joy and a few other friends but they always ignore me on the meme thing anyway. So if you sort of think you know me and want to participate go right ahead.