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Gibbs free energy
(Gibbs free en¦ergy)
noun
Chemistry
a thermodynamic quantity equal to the enthalpy (of a system or process) minus the product of the entropy and the absolute temperature.
(Symbol:
G
)
Origin:
named after J. W. Gibbs
(see
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
)
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