Statement of the law

In the form usually quoted in chemical kinetics, the phenomenological law of mass action states that the rate of a reaction is proportional to the product of the concentrations of the reactants. For the general reaction given in equation (1), we may therefore write 

Derivations of equation (4) involve a microscopic viewpoint. The reasoning, in its simplest form, is that the reaction rate is proportional to the collision rate between appropriate molecules, and the collision rate is proportional to the product of the concentrations. Implicit in this picture is the idea that equation (4) will be valid only if equation (1) represents a process that actually occurs at the molecular level. Equation (1) must be an elementary reaction step, with v[ molecules of each molecular species i interacting in the microscopic process equation (4) will not be meaningful if equation (1) is the overall methane-oxidation reaction CH -1- 2O2 CO2 -1- 2H2O, for example. Thus, there are two basic problems in chemical kinetics the first is to determine the reaction mechanism, that is, to find the elementary steps by which the given reaction proceeds, and the second is to determine the specific rate constant k for each of these steps. These two problems are discussed in Sections B,2 and B.3, respectively. 

Since most reactions involve a number of simultaneous elementary steps, the net rate of production of a species i usually equals a sum of terms. 

As with equation (1), equation (5) implies that a reaction rate for the reaction step k may be defined in such a way that 

With many reaction schemes, particularly in systems which are near 

With many reaction schemes, particularly in systems which are near equilibrium, for each reaction in equation (5) the reverse reaction 

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This was the first clear statement of the law of conservation of mass (Chapter 2), which was the cornerstone for the growth of chemistry in the nineteenth century. Again, to quote Lavoisier, "it is on this principle that the whole art of making experiments is founded."... 

As we have seen, statements of the laws in terms of the conversion of heat into work in a cyclic engine are equivalent to the statements involving energy and entropy. The conversion from one to the other is not always obvious, but the relationships predicting the efficiency of the conversion of heat into work can be derived from the U and S statements. 

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In thermodynamics, a system is the matter within a defined region. The matter in the rest of the universe is called the surroundings. The first law of thermodynamics, a mathematical statement of the law of conservation of energy, states that the total energy of a system and its surroundings is a constant ... 

Perhaps the most easily visualized statement of the law of multiple proportions is as follows If the same weight of one ele-... 

The first law of thermodynamics, which is simply a statement of the law of conservation of energy, relates energy to heat ... 

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) is recognized as the father of modern chemistry. While his fellow scientists tried to explain matter based on the elements fire, earth, air, and water, Lavoisier performed some of the first quantitative chemical experiments. His data and observations led to the statement of the law of conservation of mass. He also studied the nature of combustion and devised a system of naming elements. 

Furthermore, we may say that a compound is a pure substance consisting of two or more different elements in a fixed ratio. Water is 11.1% hydrogen and 88.9% oxygen by mass. Similarly, carbon dioxide is 27.3% carbon and 72.7% oxygen by mass, and calcium oxide (the white solid A in the previous discussion) is 71.5% calcium and 28.5% oxygen by mass. We could also combine the numbers in the previous paragraph to show that calcium carbonate is 40.1% calcium, 12.0% carbon, and 47.9% oxygen by mass. Observations such as these on innumerable pure compounds led to the statement of the Law of Definite Proportions (also known as the Law of Constant Composition) ... 

The first law of thermodynamics is a statement of the law of energy conservation. The change in the system energy when its state changes from A to B is written as the sum of the work W done on the system, and the heat flow Q into the system, during the process. The mathematical statement of the first law is then... 

Let us spend a few minutes considering what minimum physical content is necessarily involved and must be present in any formulation of the laws of thermodynamics. In the course of this, a number of conventional statements of the laws will crop up. 

Later, we ll list some criteria by which to evaluate statements of the laws and apply them to various statements. 

The expressions given in the rightmost column above simply reflect the fact that the rate at which a substance undergoes change should be proportional to its concentration this is just another statement of the Law of Mass Action. The proportionality constants kf and kr are the forward and reverse rate constants. If we start with substance A alone, the absence of B means that the forward reaction alone is proceeding. Then, as the concentration of B begins to build up, the reverse reaction comes into operation, the rate of the forward reaction diminishes due to the reduction in the concentration of B. At some point these two processes will come into exact balance so that the forward and reverse rates are the same, at which point we can write... 

Le Chatelier, Henri. A General Statement of the Laws of Chemical Equihbrium. Available from . 

Any change which occurs in nature is spontaneous and is therefore accompanied by a net increase in entropy. This conclusion led Clausius to his famous concise statement of the laws of thermodynamics ... 

Finally, in 1787, Lavoisier together with the French chemists, de Morveau, Ber-thollet and de Fourcroy established in Paris a new chemical nomenclature, that has remained valid until today. Lavoisier wrote in 1789 the Trade elementaire de Chimie (Elementary Treatise of Chemistry), the first modem textbook on chemistry, and presented a unified view of new theories of chemistry, containing a clear statement of the law of conservation of mass, and denied the existence of phlogiston. In addition, it contained a list of elements, or substances that could not be broken down further, which included oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphoms, mercury, zinc, and sulfur. 

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Bernoulli theorem At any point in a pipe through which a fluid is flowing the sum of the pressure energy, the kinetic energy, and the potential energy of a given mass of the fluid Is constant. This is equivalent to a statement of the law of the conservation of energy. The law was published in 1738 by Daniel Bernoulli. 

Others, C and D, the ratio of the quantity of C which saturates A to the quantity of D which saturates A is also the ratio of the quantities of C and D which saturate B (a statement of the law of reciprocal proportions). He proved the law of multiple proportions (he does not use this name) for the three oxides of lead (PbO, Pb304, PbOg), the oxides of copper and iron, sulphurous and sulphuric acids, neutral and basic salts of copper and lead, sulphides of iron, and some salts and showed that the ratio of sulphur to metal in ferrous and lead sulphates is the same as in ferrous and lead sulphides (the latter is converted completely into sulphate by oxidation), which confirmed Richter s law, which he supposed held good generally. In lead sulphate the oxygen in the base is just one-third that in the acid [PbS04=Pb0 + S03]. All these results confirmed Dalton s theory. All the defects in Berzelius s analyses are clearly pointed out. 

Ostwald said this was the first statement of the law of mass action, that the strength of the chemical action is proportional to the concentration of the reacting substance . Wenzel gives no numerical results and it is uncertain if he made the experiments. Wenzel s conclusion was criticised by Kirwan tin and antimony are more rapidly attacked by nitric acid than lead or copper, which have a greater affinity for the acid. Guyton de Morveau and Murray also discussed Wenzel s assumption in detail and rejected it, the affinity being modified by cohesion, etc., and the velocities are not always in the order of the affinities. 

In summary, the first law is simply a statement of the law of conservation of energy, the second law is concerned only with differences in the entropy between (two) states, and the third law allows for the calculation of the absolute entropy of a state (assuming knowledge of the system s entropy at the absolute zero of temperature, that is at T = 0 K). 

I hc theory involves the molecular properties of liquids (the chain length the number of molecular degrees of freedom, contributing to heat expansion the cohesion energy between unlinked segments) and accepts the statement of the law of corresponding sates of there bein a univ< rsal state equation of liquids and their mixtures in the rc duced variables 7 , F. I ... 

Another important feature of the Traite was that it contained the first explicit statement of the law of conservation of mass. In the chapter on fermentation Lavoisier wrote We may lay it down as an incontestable axiom, that, in all operations of art and nature, nothing is created an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Lavoisier described a... 

This is a clear statement of the law of reciprocal proportions as applied to a special case. 

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