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ERIC Number: EJ226399
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-May
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Reversibility and Returnability: Or, When Can You Return Again?
Campbell, James Arthur
Journal of Chemical Education, v57 n5 p345 May 1980
Discusses and compares the use of the word "reversibility" as it applies to thermodynamics, to equilibrium studies, and to kinetics. Discusses misuse of the word "irreversible" and its elimination from descriptions of chemical reactions. (CS)
Descriptors: Chemical Equilibrium, Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education, Resource Materials, Science Education, Science Instruction, Thermodynamics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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