{"id":13455,"date":"2015-12-13T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13455"},"modified":"2015-12-13T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T22:14:25","slug":"chemistry-what-is-entropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-what-is-entropy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry:  what is entropy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor gives a brief idea about entropy.<\/h1>\n<p>Entropy is, according to one of my chemistry professors, the &#8220;degree of disorder.&#8221;  Entropy measures the randomness, or chaos, of a given system.  Its unit is J\/(mol*(deg Kelvin))<\/p>\n<p>A solid structure is more orderly than a gas, so its entropy is much less.  For instance, at 25C, solid iron has entropy 27.2J\/(mol*K).  Carbon dioxide, by comparison, has entropy 213.6J\/(mol*K).<\/p>\n<p>Why entropy is an important concept in chemistry, I&#8217;ll begin to cover in future posts:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mortimer, Charles E.  <u>Chemistry<\/u>, sixth ed.  Belmont:  Wadsworth, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor gives a brief idea about entropy. Entropy is, according to one of my chemistry professors, the &#8220;degree of disorder.&#8221; Entropy measures the randomness, or chaos, of a given system. Its unit is J\/(mol*(deg Kelvin)) A solid structure is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-what-is-entropy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry:  what is entropy?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1260,1261,1259,1036],"class_list":["post-13455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","tag-chaos","tag-disorder","tag-entropy","tag-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13462,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions\/13462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}