A micro static-bomb combustion calorimeter, developed from a 1107 Parr semi-micro bomb, has been provided with a new micro-bomb and calorimetric bucket. In the best conditions of operation, the energy equivalent of this calorimetric arrangement is just epsilon(calor) = (731.82 +/- 0.22) J . K-1, which means an uncertainty of 0.03 per cent for the calibration with benzoic acid NIST 39j. This combustion calorimeter has been used in the measurement of the enthalpy of combustion of the succinic acid and acetanilide, giving -(1489.3 +/- 1.6) kJ . mol(-1) and -(4222.5 +/- 1.1) kJ . mol(-1), respectively, for these substances. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.