Symbols
A : Area of a surface or interface
: Hamaker constant between two media 1 and 2
A : affinity
: electrochemical affinity
AM : molar area
Am : molecular area
a : cohesion pressure of a gas; radius of the unit cell of a liquid
A, B, . : components of a mixture
a mix and b mix : terms for mixing of constants of a state equation
: coefficient of the virial in the increase in pressure
Bi : ith coefficient of the virial
b : co-volume of a gas, co-surface of an adsorbed gas
C : concentration, trace concentration of a voltage-pH diagram
: excess molar heat capacity at constant pressure
Ci : molar concentration (or molarity) of a component i
: mean concentration of ions in an ionic solution
: contribution of free electrons of a metal to the molar heat capacity
Cv(r) : contribution of rotational movements to the heat capacity at constant volume
Cv(t) : contribution of translational movements to the heat capacity at constant volume
Cv(v) : contribution of vibrational movements to the heat capacity at constant volume
CV, CP : heat capacity at constant volume and pressure
c : capacity of a capacitor; number of independent components
D : dielectric constant of the medium; protection or contact diameter of a molecule
: Debye function
d : distance between two liquid molecules
deS : exchange of entropy with the external environment
di : degree of oxidation i of an element A
diS : internal production of entropy
d : element of volume
E : energy of the system
E : Young's modulus
: Einstein function
E0 : internal energy associated with a reaction at temperature 0 K
E0 : standard electric potential or standard electromotive force of an electrochemical cell
Eabs : reversible electrical voltage of an electrochemical cell
Eb : balanced equation
: total mean energy of an element of a canonical ensemble
EC : total energy of canonical ensemble
EI : potential energy due to interactions
Ej : energy of an element j of canonical ensemble
Ekin : molar kinetic energy of electrons in a metal
Ep : set of variables at p intensive variables chosen to define a system
e : relative potential of an electrode
e0 : standard electrical potential (or normal potential) of an electrode
e0 : potential of equi-activity or equi-concentration of an electrode
eabs : absolute potential of an electrode
F : Helmholtz free energy
: excess molar free energy
: excess partial molar Helmholtz free energy of a component i
: partial molar Helmholtz free energy of mixing of a component i
: Helmholtz free energy, partial molar Helmholtz free energy of a component i
Fel : contribution of free electrons to molar Helmholtz free energy
: electrochemical Helmholtz free energy
: heterogeneous spreading parameter
fi : fugacity of component i in a gaseous mixture
Fm : molar Helmholtz free energy
: faraday
: molar Helmholtz free energy of a pure component i
: fugacity of a pure gas i
: excess Gibbs free energy
: electro-capillary Gibbs free energy
: electrochemical Gibbs free energy
: excess partial molar Gibbs free energy of a component
G : Gibbs free energy
: Gibbs free energy, partial molar Gibbs free energy of i, generalized Gibbs free energy
Gm : molar Gibbs free energy
: molar Gibbs free energy of mixing
: excess partial molar Gibbs free energy of a component
g : osmotic coefficient; acceleration of gravity; coefficients of degeneracy or multiplicity or statistical weight
molar Gibbs free energy of a component i
ga : statistical weight of fundamental electron level of the nucleus a
gi : coefficient of multiplicity of state i
g(e) : statistic weight of electron levels
g(r) : radial distribution function
: distribution of velocity onents according to Ox
g* : molar Gibbs free energy of gas i under a pressure of 1 atmosphere in a mixture
: standard molar enthalpy of formation at temperature T
: enthalpy, partial molar enthalpy of i
H : Hamiltonian
Hi, : resonance integral between two identical neighboring atoms
Hi,i : Coulombian integral between two identical neighboring atoms
H : magnetic field
: electrochemical enthalpy
: excess molar enthalpy
: molar enthalpy of mixing
: excess partial molar enthalpy of a component i
: partial molar enthalpy of mixing of component i
ht : spreading coefficient
h : stoichiometric coefficient of protons in an electrochemical reaction
h : Planck's constant
: molar enthalpy of a pure component i
hét : spreading coefficient of a liquid on another Harkins liquid
I : ionic strength of an ionic solution
Im : ionic strength reduced to molarities
I, I1, I2 I3 : moments of inertia.
II : configuration integral of the canonical translational partition function
i : Van 't Hoff factor
: partial molar value of the variable J relative to component i
: value of mixing of size relative to component
: partial molar value of mixing of size J relative to component i
: size of J relative to component i in a perfect solution
: partial molar value of size relative to component i in a perfect solution
: value of size J for the pure component i in the same segregation state
j : quantum rotation number
: Thermodynamic coefficient associated with the set of variables Ep, Xj is its variable of definition and Yi its function of definition
: equilibrium constant of the phase transformation Tr for component i
Kij : local composition weighting factor
Kads : adsorption equilibrium constant
KAX : solubility product of solid AX
: partition coefficient of compound i between both phases a and ß
Kd : dissociation constant
Kfe : adsorption equilibrium function
: equilibrium constant relative to concentrations
: equilibrium constant relative gacities
: equilibrium constant relative to partial pressures
Kr : equilibrium constant
Ks : solubility product
k : wave number
kB : Boltzmann constant
Lt : latent heat accompanying the transformation t
lc : capillary length
M : molar mass
M : magnetic moment; Madelung constant
m, ms : mass of solute s in grams per kg of solvent
m : total mass
mi : mass of component i
N : number of molecules in an ensemble
Na : Avogadro's number
NA : number of molecules of the component A
NC : number of elements in the canonic ensemble
Nc : Total number of cells in a liquid.
n : total number of moles in a solution or a mixture; quantum translation number
ni : number of objects i of system with energy ei.
: total number of moles in phase:a
: mean number of neighboring holes in a molecule in a liquid
ni : number of moles of component i
NL : total number of holes in a liquid
: critical pressure of a mixture
P : pressure of a gas
: sublimation vapor pressure of component i
: saturation vapor pressure of component i
: relative pressure of the mixture
Pc : critical pressure
pF : Fermi impulsion
Pi : partial pressure of component i
Pj : fraction of number of elements in a state j
p : number of external physical variables; spreading parameter
Q : heat balance
Qa : reaction quotient in terms of activities
QP : heat of transformation at constant pressure ; reaction quotient in terms of partial pressure
Qr : reaction quotient of transformation r
QV : heat of transformation at constant volume
q? : equilibrium heat of adsorption
qd : differential heat of adsorption.
qi : volumic fraction parameter
qisost : isosteric heat of adsorption
: reaction rate
R : ideal gas constant
R : radius of mean curvature of a surface; distillation reflux ratio
rA : radius of ionic atmosphere
r0 : distance of minimal energy between two molecules
rc : radius of a cylindrical tube
ri : parameter of volumic fraction
rK : Kelvin's radius
s : parameter of order of an alloy
: molar entropy of mixing
: excess partial molar...