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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

What exactly is Gibbs free energy.Is it a kind of energy or what?

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7 Years agoGrade 11
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7 Years ago
The Gibbs free energy is a way of combining the entropy and enthalpy of a system into one value. It describes the energy available to do work and thus can be used to determine the spontaneity of a reaction.