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Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances
In famous publications, Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances is a 1923 textbook, written by American physical chemists Gilbert Lewis and Merle Randall, that introduced the science of thermodynamics to the chemists of the world. It is one of the founding books of modern chemical thermodynamics, has been called "the world's most quoted scientific book", and in thermodynamics is the certainly the most referenced. [1] This influential book led to the replacement of the term “affinity” by the term "free energy" in much of the English-speaking world. [2] The general function of the book was to make the methods of America mathematical physicist Willard Gibbs' very-dense 1876 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances accessible to the chemists.Famous quotes
Of the many famous thermodynamics quotations of history, one is found on the opening page of Lewis and Randall's Thermodynamics: [3]
“The fascination of a growing science lies in the work of the pioneers at the very borderland of the unknown, but to reach this frontier one must pass over well traveled roads; of these one of the safest and surest is the broad highway of thermodynamics”
References
1. (a) Angrist, Stanley W. and Helper, Loren G. (1967). Order and Chaos – Laws of Energy and Entropy, (pg. 27: "most-quoted"). New York: Basic Books.
(b) The "most referenced" book in the reference sections of all of the books in American chemical engineer Libb Thims' 200+ thermodynamics book collection is Lewis and Randall's Thermodynamics.
2. Leicester, H. (1971). The Historical Background of Chemistry. New York: Dover.
3. (a) Lewis, Gilbert & Randall, Merle. (1923). Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances, (pg. x). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
(b) Cavazox-Gaither A.E. (2002). Chemically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations, (section: “Thermodynamics”, pg. 428). CRC Press.
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