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Chemical Education Today
Commentary
Let's Drive "Driving Force" Out of Chemistry
Norman C. Craig
Department of Chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074-1085
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June 2005
Vol. 82 No. 6
p. 827
Abstract
"Driving force" is identified as a misleading concept in analyzing spontaneous change. Driving force wrongly suggests that Newtonian mechanics and determinism control and explain spontaneous processes. The usefulness of the competition of ΔH versus ΔS in discussing chemical change is also questioned. Entropy analyses—which consider the contributions to the total change in entropy—are advocated.
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 Craig, Norman C. J. Chem. Educ. 2005 82 827.
*  Keywords
 Bioenergetics; Biophysical Chemistry; Calorimetry / Thermochemistry; Chemical Engineering; Continuing Education; First-Year Undergraduate / General; Graduate Education / Research; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Misconceptions / Discrepant Events; Natural Products; Physical Chemistry; Problem Solving / Decision Making; Public Understanding / Outreach; Textbooks / Reference Books; Thermodynamics; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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May 6, 2005
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