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The first edition of this book was previously published by Pearson Education, Inc. It was The second edition, version 10 is copyright ©2020 by Howard DeVoe. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 40 International License: https://creativecommons org/licenses/by/4 0/ The book was typeset using the LATEX typesetting system and the memoir class. Most of the figures were produced with PSTricks, a related software program. The fonts are Adobe Times, MathTime, and Computer Modern Typewriter. A Solutions Manual is available at the Web site linked below. I thank the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland for hosting the Web site for this book:

Key Points

  • Concentration is sometimes called "amount concentration" or "molar concentration" to avoid confusion with number concentration (the number of particles per unit volume).
  • The net quantity of heat transferred to phase ' during an infinitesimal time interval is ¶q' D P "¤' ¶q'".
  • The experimental data are used to determine the value of U.IBP; T2/, the internal energy change of the isothermal bomb process at the final temperature of the reaction.
  • The half-life of a first-order reaction is often expressed as t1/2 = 0.693/k (as ln(2)≈0.693).
  • A reaction is said to be second order when the overall order is two.
  • For zero-order reactions, the reaction rate is independent of the concentration of a reactant, so that changing its concentration has no effect on the rate of the reaction.

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