{"id":180,"date":"2007-01-25T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpyro.com\/wp\/?p=180"},"modified":"2007-03-14T18:50:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T18:50:17","slug":"an-introduction-to-chemical-thermodynamics-part-3-free-energy-and-equilibrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics Part 3. Free Energy and Equilibrium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>Barry Sturman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>ABSTRACT:<\/strong> This is the third article in a series presenting an introduction to chemical thermodynamics, emphasizing those aspects of particular relevance to pyrotechnics. It shows how the Gibbs free energy varies with temperature and pressure, and how this affects chemical equilibrium. It also shows how a number of useful facts about chemical systems can be predicted from the thermodynamic properties of the reactants and possible products. This is illustrated with examples from pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> thermodynamics, free energy, equilibrium constant, thermodynamic modeling<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Ref:<\/strong> JPyro, Issue 15, 2002, pp25-42<br \/> (J15_25)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Sturman ABSTRACT: This is the third article in a series presenting an introduction to chemical thermodynamics, emphasizing those aspects of particular relevance to pyrotechnics. It shows how the Gibbs free energy varies with temperature and pressure, and how this affects chemical equilibrium. It also shows how a number of useful facts about chemical systems &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=180\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics Part 3. Free Energy and Equilibrium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}