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‘Acceleration’ of Chemical Reactions

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IN a recent monograph on the thermodynamics of irreversible processes, Prigogine1 has investigated in some detail the time variation of the entropy production (d2S/dt 2). An examination of the implications of the general theory for the case of a chemical reaction leads to some interesting new concepts.

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  1. Prigogine, I., “Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes” (Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1955).

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RAW, C., YOURGRAU, W. ‘Acceleration’ of Chemical Reactions. Nature 178, 809 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178809a0

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