Spontaneous and Non-Spontaneous Processes & Entropy

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Spontaneity of a Process

How it occurs on its own without the help of any external factors.

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Non-Spontaneous

Reverse of any spontaneous process

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Spontaneity

Tells whether a reaction will occur or not.

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Thomson-Berchelott Principle

Almost all exothermic chemical processes are spontaneous.

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Entropy

Measure of molecular randomness or disorder; state function; depends on the initial and final states of a system.

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Third Law of Thermodynamics

A perfectly ordered pure crystalline solid at zero Kelvin will have zero entropy.