thermochemistry
IPA: θˈɝmoʊkˈɛmʌstri
noun
- (chemistry, physics) The study of the thermodynamics of chemical reactions.
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Examples of "thermochemistry" in Sentences
- I now blog at battleoftheants.blogspot.com thermochemistry
- For his work in thermochemistry he received the Nobel Prize in
- Great lessons there on thermochemistry, especially what an exothermic reaction is
- Nernst of Berlin received this award for work in thermochemistry, despite a 16-year opposition to this recognition from Arrhenius
- 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.
- 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.
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