A very important quantity is identified when the Gibbs free energy is introduced as in Equation 19-8.
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(19-11) |
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(19-12) |
Note that the chemical potential is an intensive variable as a potential should be.
is the chemical potential of species
in phase
: it is rate at which
reversible work that must be done on a the subsystem
to add a species
at
constant
and
.
Question: How would Equation 19-8 be modified if the chemical species that were being added were charged?
Question: How would the equilibrium condition Equation 19-8 (or more generally Equation 19-1) be modified if the chemical species that were being added were charged?
Work out in the space provided below, the general conditions on equilibrium for
a closed system (i.e.,one that has a fixed numbers of independent
chemical species) at fixed pressure and temperature.
Let the system have
different phases.