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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
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A Brief History of Thermodynamics Notation
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Rubin Battino
Department of Chemistry, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435
Laurence E. Strong
Department of Chemistry, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374
Scott E. Wood
Department o f Chemistry, Illinoins Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616
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March 1997
Vol. 74 No. 3
p. 304
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This paper gives a brief history of thermodynamic notation for the energy, E, enthalpy, H, entropy, S, Gibbs energy, G, Helmholtz energy, A, work, W, heat, Q, pressure, P, volume, V, and temperature, T. In particular, the paper answers the question, "Where did the symbol S for entropy come from?"
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Battino, Rubin; Strong Laurence E.; Wood, Scott E. J. Chem. Educ. 1997 74 304.
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