Inorganic energetics from mainframe to 'back-of-envelope'

摘要

On Thursday, 16 April 2009, Professor H. Donald. B. Jenkins presented anExaugural Lecture to a packed audience at the University of Warwick, at aSymposium held to honour his retirement and to celebrate his 44-year career.This is a transcript of that lecture, which describes the evolution of a newapproach to thermodynamics: volume-based thermodynamics (VBT) which isgaining in popularity and which is relatively simple to use. Reported also are anumber of other simple relationships, capable of estimation of standardthermodynamic data, currently under development. Some of these are immen-sely powerful and they are described.