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Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn 周期律、化学元素和科学发现：诺伍德-汉森和托马斯-库恩的思考

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09512-2

Cristina Spolti Lorenzetti, Anabel Cardoso Raicik, Luiz O. Q. Peduzzi

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Research status of the periodic table: a bibliometric analysis 元素周期表的研究现状：文献计量分析

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09509-x

Kamna Sharma, Deepak Kumar Das, Saibal Ray

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Clashing perspectives: Kantian epistemology and quantum chemistry theory 冲突的观点：康德认识论与量子化学理论

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09508-y

Ricardo Vivas-Reyes

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An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water 化学物质概念的互动方法和水的案例

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-05-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09504-2

Marabel Riesmeier

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Deciphering the physical meaning of Gibbs’s maximum work equation 解读吉布斯最大功方程的物理意义

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09503-3

Robert T. Hanlon

{"title":"Deciphering the physical meaning of Gibbs’s maximum work equation","authors":"Robert T. Hanlon","doi":"10.1007/s10698-024-09503-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10698-024-09503-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>J. Willard Gibbs derived the following equation to quantify the maximum work possible for a chemical reaction</p><p><span>({text{Maximum work }} = , - Delta {text{G}}_{{{text{rxn}}}} = , - left( {Delta {text{H}}_{{{text{rxn}}}} {-}{text{ T}}Delta {text{S}}_{{{text{rxn}}}} } right) {text{ constant T}},{text{P}})</span></p><p>∆H<sub>rxn</sub> is the enthalpy change of reaction as measured in a reaction calorimeter and ∆G<sub>rxn</sub> the change in Gibbs energy as measured, if feasible, in an electrochemical cell by the voltage across the two half-cells. To Gibbs, reaction spontaneity corresponds to negative values of ∆G<sub>rxn</sub>. But what is T∆S<sub>rxn</sub>, absolute temperature times the change in entropy? Gibbs stated that this term quantifies the heating/cooling required to maintain constant temperature in an electrochemical cell. Seeking a deeper explanation than this, one involving the behaviors of atoms and molecules that cause these thermodynamic phenomena, I employed an “atoms first” approach to decipher the physical underpinning of T∆S<sub>rxn</sub> and, in so doing, developed the hypothesis that this term quantifies the change in “structural energy” of the system during a chemical reaction. This hypothesis now challenges me to similarly explain the physical underpinning of the Gibbs–Helmholtz equation</p><p><span>({text{d}}left( {Delta {text{G}}_{{{text{rxn}}}} } right)/{text{dT}} = - Delta {text{S}}_{{{text{rxn}}}} left( {text{constant P}} right))</span></p><p>While this equation illustrates a relationship between ∆G<sub>rxn</sub> and ∆S<sub>rxn</sub>, I don’t understand how this is so, especially since orbital electron energies that I hypothesize are responsible for ∆G<sub>rxn</sub> are not directly involved in the entropy determination of atoms and molecules that are responsible for ∆S<sub>rxn</sub>. I write this paper to both share my progress and also to seek help from any who can clarify this for me.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":568,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Chemistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10698-024-09503-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140834829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Connecting De Donder’s equation with the differential changes of thermodynamic potentials: understanding thermodynamic potentials 将德东德方程与热力学势的微分变化联系起来：理解热力学势

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09507-z

Mihalj Poša

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Hydrogen over helium: A philosophical position 氢比氦更重要哲学立场

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-023-09496-5

René Vernon

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Editorial 76 编辑 76

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09505-1

Eric R. Scerri

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Ethics of the future of chemical sciences 未来化学科学的伦理

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09500-6

José Antonio Chamizo, Gustavo Ortiz-Millán

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Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective 互动、解释和表征：从皮尔海符号学角度看化学知识的构建和传播

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-024-09506-0

Karina Aparecida de Freitas Dias de Souza, Paulo Alves Porto

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