A thermodynamic analysis of the DPNH "breeder cycle" appears to be attainable by measurements of redox potentials and calorimetric determinations of heats of reaction.
Many of the conditions which might have arisen naturally can be approximated by thermodynamic equilibrium.
The thermodynamic basis of the law of mass-action is primarily due to Horstmann, J.
Even here some little impurity was present, and the conductivity of chemically pure water was estimated by thermodynamic reasoning as 0.
This result has been experimentally verified by Joule ('Thermodynamic Properties of Solids,' Phil.
The fact that the Gibbs-Helmholtz equation is found to apply also indicates that the lead accumulator is approximately reversible in the thermodynamic sense of the term.
Joule in his paper on 'Thermodynamic Properties of Solids' (cited above).
In regard to thermal effects we can obtain some indications from general thermodynamic theory.
Any reversible cell can theoretically be employed as an accumulator, though, in practice, conditions of general convenience are more sought after than thermodynamic efficiency.
Thermodynamic theory also indicates a connexion between the osmotic pressure of a solution and the depression of its freezing point and its vapour pressure compared with those of the pure solvent.
It has been found that two-cycle engines present greater practical difficulties in regard to obtaining high indicated and brake thermal efficiencies, but the thermodynamic considerations are not affected by the practical difficulties.
Physics) Defn: A line upon a thermodynamic diagram so drawn as to represent the pressures corresponding to changes of temperature when the volume of the gas operated on is constant.
But the most indisputable triumph of this thermodynamic statics is the discovery of the laws which regulate the changes of physical state or of chemical constitution.
It was therefore, in all strictness, impossible to calculate the entropy of a solution, and consequently to be certain of the value of the thermodynamic potential.
Duhem showed that the theory of the thermodynamicpotential furnished precise information on solutions or liquid mixtures.
There is in this a coincidence which has also been utilized in the preceding thermodynamic calculations.
The fundamental meaning of the law is most accurately defined in thermodynamic terms, that is, in terms of the work or energy relations connected with changes of gaseous or osmotic pressures.
It may be added that van 't Hoff's thermodynamic proof involves the same correct definition of the volume that Morse and Frazer subsequently developed experimentally.
This conclusion is reached more rigorously and more simply by thermodynamic analysis.
With full description and 13 figures The Generation of Steam and theThermodynamic Problems Involved.
In the light of our previous studies we shall not find it difficult to test the reality-value of the thermodynamic conception of heat.
Both facts are linked together by science through the thermodynamicconception of heat.
Willard Gibbs, of Yale, discovered what is known as the phase rule, which shows, by thermodynamic methods, how the conditions of chemical equilibria can be systematically grouped.
The temperatures must for this purpose be equalised by perfect thermodynamic engines working between the final temperature T₀, say, and the temperatures of the different parts of the system.
But then the source provided by the thermodynamic view just stated had ceased to exist.
Another idea, that of thermodynamic motivity, on which Thomson suggested might be founded a fruitful presentation of the subject of thermodynamics, may be mentioned here.
A certain assignment of value to it gave, as we shall see, Thomson's famous absolute thermodynamic scale of temperature.
It is only possible to give here a very short indication of the thermodynamic treatment, and of the nature of Thomson's remarkable discovery of the electric convection of heat.
Thomson had, however, previous to the publication of this paper, applied thermodynamictheory to thermoelectric phenomena.
Watt, the rest being the thermodynamic waste incident to all known methods of operation of heat engines, and apparently unavoidable.
A more rigorous proof involves considerations of the thermodynamic potentials, following the methods of J.
If heat be taken from any part of the system, only part of this heat can be converted into work by means of thermodynamic engines; and the rest will be given to the auxiliary medium, and will constitute unavailable energy or waste.
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