Take a look at these further reading suggestions to deepen your understanding:
- A good explanation ‘Why combustions are always exothermic, yielding about 418 kJ per mole of O2’ – an article by Klaus Schmidt-Rohr published in Chem. Educ. 92, 12, pp. 2094-2099, 2015
- A useful introduction to the thermodynamics of chemical equilibrium by Stephen Lower