Randall, Merle

Ragone, D.V., 348 Randall, Merle, 114 Randles, John E.B., 202, 608 Raney, Murray, 535 Rault, Frangois Marie, 99 Reymond, R, 618 Reuss, Ferdinand Friedrich, 595 Rohrer, H 484 Robinson, J., 504 Robinson, Robert A., 122 Ryder, K.S., 463 Rysselberghe, Pierre van, 698... 

Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 253 Ramsay, William, 175 n.48 Ramus, Petrus, 60 Randall, Merle, 228 Raoult, Francis, 143-145, 146-147 Regnault, Victor, 52, 120 n.65 Remick, Edward, 221 Remsen, Ira, 113-114 Reynolds, Osborne, 177 Rice, Oscar K., 223, 254 Richards, Robert J., 15 Richards, Theodore William, 121 Rideal, Eric, 125... 

Lewis, Gilbert Newton and Randall, Merle. Thermodynamics. Revised by Kenneth S. Pitzer and Leo Brewer. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. 1961. 

Lewis, Gilbert Newton, Randall, Merle, Thermodynamics, revised ed.,... 

Lewis, Gilbert Newton, and Randall, Merle F. (1923). Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances. New York MeGraw-HiU. 

In 1923. Lewis published a classic book (later reprinted by Dover Publications) titled Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules. Here, in Lewis s characteristically lucid style, we find many of the basic principles of covalent bonding discussed in this chapter. Included are electron-dot structures, the octet rule, and the concept of electronegativity. Here too is the Lewis definition of acids and bases (Chapter 15). That same year, Lewis published with Merle Randall a text called Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances. Today, a revised edition of that text is still used in graduate courses in chemistry. 

In this section we describe two methods for determining partial molal quantities for two-component systems from experimental data. In both cases the experimental data necessary are the behavior of the extensive property G or, equivalently, the intensive property as a function of the mole fraction of one of the components. (More details can be found in the book Gilbert Newton Lewis and Merle Randall, Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances, pp. 36-41, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1923.)... 

Great significance in the first approximation equation has parameter I, which is the solution ionity or summary ionic strength. It was introduced by Gilbert Newton Eewis and Merle Randall (1888-1950) for the purpose of characterizing the solutions electric field intensity and the extent of its deviation from the ideal state. The value of ionic strength is equal to half of the sum of the product of ion concentrations and their squared charge ... 

In the first modern textbook on thermodynamics, from the dedication of which the above sentence is extracted, Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall cited words of over a century ago by the great French chemist, Henri Louis Le Chatelier, on the importance of the science of thermodynamics ... 

In 1923, at age 48, he consolidated his knowledge of thermodynamics in the great classic Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances with Merle Randal as coauthor. After that his interests changed to other subjects. He was the first to prepare pure deuterium and D2O (1933), he formulated his generalized definitions of acids and bases (Lewis acids and bases, 1938), and at the time of his death he was doing research on photochemical processes. 

Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall, The Activity Coefficient of Strong Electrolytes. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1112-1154(1921). 

The influential textbook of G.N. Lewis (1875-1946) and Merle Randall (1888-1950) which presents these ideas has led to the replacement of the term affinity by the term... 

Since G. N. Lewis avoided entropy in his early works, it seems appropriate to conclude with a couple of passages from the influential text that he co-authored with Merle Randall in 1923. Lewis and Randall took considerable care to explain entropy, devoting separate chapters to its numerical calculation (both thermodynamic and statistical mechanical), the third law understood entropically, and atomic entropies (standard molar entropy values), areas to which Lewis made important experimental contributions. And they wrote ... 

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