Die Thermodynamik in der Chemie

Abstract

TWENTY years ago the first application of the second law of thermodynamics to the study of chemical phenomena was published by Horstmann, and shortly afterwards the whole subject was investigated by Willard Gibbs, but in a manner so general that his work failed to gain the recognition of physical chemists for many years. Within the last decade, however, progress in this direction has been very rapid, and special branches or special aspects of chemical thermodynamics have received exhaustive treatment at the hands of van 't Hoff, Le Chatelier, Duhem, Planck, and others. But if we except the novel and brilliant exposition in the new edition of Ostwald's “Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Chemie,” a general survey of the modern applications of thermodynamics to chemistry has hitherto been wanting, and it is to supply this want that Dr. van Laar has written the present volume.

Die Thermodynamik in der Chemie.

Von J. J. van Laar. Mit einem Vorwort von Prof. Dr. J. H. van't Hoff. Pp. xvi., and 196. (Amsterdam and Leipzig, 1893.)