Infinite Forms of Hess's Law

[Mary Becerra 2D]

Are there infinite forms of Hess's Law? All the problems I have encountered usually have between 2-4 chemical reactions to use, but is it possible to have more than that in one problem? Or are we limited to the number of reactions?

[Oscar Valdovinos 1I]

Technically we could use Hess law to connect hundreds of equations, but I don't think we are going to see that in our problems because it would pointless since 2-4 equations shows that we know the concepts associated with Hess's law.

[Justin Chang 2K]

Yeah, you can use Hess’s Law indefinitely to calculate enthalpies, since enthalpy is a state function you can just keep on adding and adding enthalpies. However, I guess for time’s sake, 2-4 equations is enough to test our knowledge of how enthalpy works and how chemical reactions work (for example, if you need to multiply a reaction by 2, then the deltaH also needs to be multiplied by 2).

[Aijun Zhang 1D]

I think most of the formulas given are between two to four in tests since the time to finish exam is needed to be counted into consideration. However, I believe you can write infinite forms for Hess's law, especially in organic chemistry.
Just consider the reactants and products and try to link them together with other reactions

[Vincent Kim 2I]

There can be much more than 2-4 reactions involved with the use of Hess's Law, but it's not necessary to use all of them because it's possible to represent the steps of a chemical reaction with fewer steps.

[Jessica Wakefield 1H]

you could but for our purposes, i think we are only concerned with 2-4