Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael S Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Continuations Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:24:52 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <20240718222452.00006070@yahoo.com> References: <47689j5gbdg2runh3t7oq2thodmfkalno6@4ax.com> <116d9j5651mtjmq4bkjaheuf0pgpu6p0m8@4ax.com> <7u7e9j5dthm94vb2vdsugngjf1cafhu2i4@4ax.com> <0f7b4deb1761f4c485d1dc3b21eb7cb3@www.novabbs.org> <4bbc6af7baab612635eef0de4847ba5b@www.novabbs.org> <20240718193803.00004176@yahoo.com> <20240718202843.00001dd0@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 21:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="628302425c55d3118798ac32d9023fa5"; logging-data="2683775"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/C9Lm8mM4J8VICbvduY+62WcsA1Pu5glQ=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:gq3HRpJ9+dFIp0cTYSKjIlyhwss= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.34; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 2728 On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:48:45 -0000 (UTC) Thomas Koenig wrote: > Michael S schrieb: > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:06:52 -0000 (UTC) > > Thomas Koenig wrote: > >> It does work far away from the equilibrium (which is the point). > > > > But how far? > > Does it work for EA/RT outside of, say [-10:+12] ? > > Ea is almost always positive; if if was negative, it would mean that > a reaction is is slowed down by increasing temperature (and by this > don't mean the reverse reaction). If you see that in data, that > means that the Arrhenius model is not applicable because there is > in fact no activation energy to overcome, that something strange > happens in thermodynamics (say, you get solid precipitation of > one component at a certain temperature) or that some there are > some intermediate steps which are not described in the model. > > And to make sense, -Ea/(RT) is always less then zero. Reasonable > example: Ea = 30 kJ/mol, R=8.314, T=600 K gives you -6.01 as the > argument of the exponent, so the term is then ~ 0.002444 .