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Paul J. Gans
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I am a retired teacher of chemistry at the university level. My particular fields are thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. From being retired it is possible to infer that I'm one of the over-the-hill gang. One might be right about that, I'm the wrong person to ask.

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Why do reversible processes not increase the entropy of the universe infinitesimally?
Oct 12, 2012
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The number of degrees of freedom of a monatomic gas
Mar 10, 2013
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Could temperature have been defined as $-\partial S/\partial U$?
Jan 7, 2013
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Why do covalent bonds form?
Sep 3, 2012
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What equation of state is needed for liquid states?
Oct 13, 2012
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What happens when you heat vodka in a microwave?
Jan 11, 2013
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May molecules of ideal gases have an inner structure?
Jul 2, 2012
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What happens to 5 electrons on a sphere?
Jan 18, 2013
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The distance square in the Newton's law of universal gravitation is really a square?
Dec 18, 2012
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Can entropy be explained in terms of a cleaning/keeping your room clean?
Nov 18, 2012
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Why are atoms with eight electrons in the outer shell extremely stable?
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Negative Kelvin Temperature
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Is carbon tetrachloride an electrolyte?
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What is a rigorous definition of gas volume, and how is the Van der Waals equation derived?
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Law of Multiple Proportions: What is the significance of small whole numbers?

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