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thermochemistry

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The chemistry of heat and heat-associated chemical phenomena.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That branch of chemical science which includes all the various relations existing between chemical action and heat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry, physics The study of the thermodynamics of chemical reactions.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the branch of chemistry that studies the relation between chemical action and the amount of heat absorbed or generated

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Examples

  • Likewise, in thermochemistry, one has always stuck to the thermal effect, that is, to energy differences, until Wilhelm Ostwald in particular emphatically showed that many detailed considerations could be significantly abbreviated if one dealt with energy itself instead of with calorimetric numbers.

    Max Planck - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • For his work in thermochemistry he received the Nobel Prize in

    Walther Nernst - Biography 1966

  • Great lessons there on thermochemistry, especially what an exothermic reaction is

    Top 10 Mad Science-Worthy Chemistry Experiments » E-Mail 2009

  • Nernst of Berlin received this award for work in thermochemistry, despite a 16-year opposition to this recognition from Arrhenius

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

  • Great lessons there on thermochemistry, especially what an exothermic reaction is

    Top 10 Mad Science-Worthy Chemistry Experiments 2009

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  • Sabatier's earliest researches concerned the thermochemistry of sulphur and metallic sulphates, the subject for his thesis leading to his doctorate, and, in Toulouse, he continued his physico-chemical investigations to sulphides, chlorides, chromates and copper compounds.

    Paul Sabatier - Biography 1966

  • Connie tells me about how she’s been recently excited about thermochemistry and other unseen inks that change color based on the environment, because that opens a whole new host of possibilities for knitted technology.

    On the Cutting Edge of Technical Knit Manufacturing Ruth Grace Wong 2021

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