The Silent Thermodynamic Guardian

The Silent Thermodynamic Guardian
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Ever notice how those thermodynamic tables in the back of chemistry textbooks are printed on what must be military-grade paper? While chemistry majors peacefully snooze through their existential crises, some poor soul had to experimentally determine the Gibbs free energy of 4,827 different compounds at standard conditions. These unsung lab warriors literally set themselves on fire so you could skip that calculation and still pass Physical Chemistry. Next time you flip to those tables, pour one out for the graduate students who probably lost their eyebrows measuring the heat of formation of dinitrogen tetroxide.

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