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Thermochemistry

noun
1.
The branch of chemistry that studies the relation between chemical action and the amount of heat absorbed or generated.





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... is absorbed to a greater or less degree in effecting molecular changes, as, for example, the combustion of 1 pound of nitrogen to form protoxide of nitrogen results in the absorption of 1,157 units of heat. Berthelot states, as one of the fundamental principles of thermochemistry, "that the quantity of heat evolved is the measure of the sum of the chemical and physical work accomplished in the reaction"; and such a law will no doubt account for the phenomena above noted. The ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various


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