No "Driving Forces" in General Chemistry

Evguenii I. Kozliak
Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9024
J. Chem. Educ., 2006, 83 (5), p 702
DOI: 10.1021/ed083p702.2
Publication Date (Web): May 1, 2006

Abstract

A simple and easy-to-remember ‘explanation’, that precipitation of a solid and/or formation of water are “driving forces” of those reactions or “drive them to completion”, still occurs among instructors.

Keywords (Audience):

First-Year Undergraduate / General

Keywords (Domain):

Chemical Engineering

Keywords (Feature):

Letters

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Misconceptions / Discrepant Events

Keywords (Subject):

Bioenergetics
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  • Received: August 03, 2009

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