Island Jafa
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A question of units for chemical potential
I have come across text and tables showing values of chemical potentials in a unit which I am not familiar with.
The symbol used is "G" instead of the usual SI unit "J"!
Could anyone help me out with this inquiry please?
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SWIM
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Is that the Gibbs free energy number?
I think that's more or less a measure like J, but my thermodynamics is pretty shaky.
@Unionised, okay, apparently VERY shaky. Must crack some books.
[Edited on 9-9-2017 by SWIM]
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Calling the Giibs free energy G and measuring it in Joules is like calling time T and measuring it in seconds.
G and T are symbols, not units.
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Island Jafa
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I am aware of the difference between the Gibbs free energy symbol which is shown as DELTA G or DELTA F and its SI unit (J), but the tables and the
text that I came across were quite specific about the units.
As a matter of fact the column heading Mu gave unit as (kG) and for another quantity , ALFA; (G/K) which in a normal format would have been (kJ) and
(J/K).
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Island Jafa
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I am aware of the difference between the Gibbs free energy symbol which is shown as DELTA G or DELTA F and its SI unit (J), but the tables and the
text that I came across were quite specific about the units.
As a matter of fact the column heading Mu gave unit as (kG) and for another quantity , ALFA; (G/K) which in a normal format would have been (kJ) and
(J/K).
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