From owner-metabolic-reg@net.bio.net Wed Dec 22 22:00:00 1993
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Subject: exothermic or endothermic?
Date: 23 Dec 1993 09:52:24 -0000
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In my humble opinion, the fact that a process is driven by energy influx does 
not necessarily make this process endothermic. The point is that DeltaG 
(change in Gibbs Free Energy) need not have the same sign as DeltaH (change 
in enthalpy). If a process has a positive DeltaG, i.e. it has to be driven to 
operate, it may have positive or negative DeltaH, which gives the heat 
exchange.

Stefan=Schuster @ rz.hu-berlin.de


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