Abstract
THE application of the concept of equilibrium to industrial processes involving gaseous reactions and changes of state has met with such success as to encourage a more extended use of the thermodynamic method in other directions, and numerous attempts to do so have been recorded in the literature in recent years. A great deal of ingenuity has been expended in overcoming some of the more obvious limitations of the method ; for, apart from the lack of essential data, there are difficulties of a fundamental kind due to the fact that no 'real' system is in true equilibrium with respect to all the possible changes which may occur within it ; and industrial processes generally, include a time factor which is not taken into account in the thermodynamic treatment.
Thermochemical Calculations
By Dr. Ralph R. Wenner. Pp. xii + 384. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1941.) 28s.
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NEWITT, D. Thermochemical Calculations. Nature 150, 37–38 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150037a0
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