Geochemistry

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, William M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Geochemistry
  • 1.2 This Book
  • 1.3 The Philosophy of Science
  • 1.3.1 Building scientific understanding
  • 1.3.2 The scientist as skeptic
  • 1.4 Elements, Atoms, and Chemical Bonds: Some Chemical Fundamentals
  • 1.4.1 The periodic table
  • 1.4.2 Electrons and orbits
  • 1.4.3 Some chemical properties of the elements
  • 1.4.4 Chemical bonding
  • 1.5 A Brief Look at the Earth
  • 1.5.1 Structure of the Earth
  • 1.5.2 Plate tectonics and the hydrologic cycle
  • 1.5.3 Earth materials
  • 2.5.3 Path independence, exact differentials, state functions, and the first law
  • 2.6 The Second Law and Entropy
  • 2.6.1 Statement
  • 2.6.2 Statistical mechanics: a microscopic perspective of entropy
  • 2.6.3 Integrating factors and exact differentials
  • 2.7 Enthalpy
  • 2.8 Heat Capacity
  • 2.8.1 Constant volume heat capacity
  • 2.8.2 Constant pressure heat capacity
  • 2.8.3 Energy associated with volume and the relationship between Cv and Cp
  • 2.8.4 Heat capacity of solids: a problem in quantum physics
  • 2.8.5 Relationship of entropy to other state variables
  • 2.8.6 Additive nature of silicate heat capacities
  • 2.9 The Third Law and Absolute Entropy
  • 2.9.1 Statement of the third law
  • 2.9.2 Absolute entropy
  • 2.10 Calculating Enthalpy and Entropy Changes
  • 2.10.1 Enthalpy changes due to changes in temperature and pressure
  • 2.10.2 Changes in enthalpy due to reactions and change of state
  • 2.10.3 Entropies of reaction
  • 2.11 Free Energy
  • 2.11.1 Helmholtz free energy
  • 2.11.2 Gibbs free energy
  • 2.11.3 Criteria for equilibrium and spontaneity
  • 2.11.4 Temperature and pressure dependence of the Gibbs free energy
  • 2.12 The Maxwell Relations

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