Deciphering the physical meaning of Gibbs’s maximum work equation

J. Willard Gibbs derived the following equation to quantify the maximum work possible for a chemical reaction $${\text{Maximum work }} = \, - \Delta {\text{G}}_{{{\text{rxn}}}} = \, - \left( {\Delta {\text{H}}_{{{\text{rx...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanlon, Robert T.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154839