
doi: 10.1038/178809a0
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.
classical thermodynamics, heat transfer
classical thermodynamics, heat transfer
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