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THE recent report of the Joint Committee of the Chemical, Faraday, and Physical Societies on Symbols for Thermodynamical and Physico-Chemical Quantities may be taken as an occasion for some remarks on the sign and symbol of heat of reaction and allied quantities. As is familiar, the heat of a reaction may be defined as the heat generated or lost by the system, when unit mass of reactants passes into resultants, the unit of mass being the number of grams represented by the sum of the molecular weights multiplied by their respective coefficients on either side of the chemical equation.
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SAND, H. The Sign and Symbol of Heat of Reaction. Nature 140, 809–810 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140809b0
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