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WHAT IS GIBBS ENERGY?

Gibb's free energy is a thermodynamic potential that measures the useful or process initiating work obtainable from a thermodynamic system at a  constant temperature and pressure Gibb's free energy is the maximum amount of non expansion work that can be extracted from a closed system .This maximum can be attained only by in a completely reversible process .The Gibb's free energy of a system at any moment in time is defined as the enthalpy of the system minus the product of the temperature times the entropy of the system .
                   G   =   H -TS
Gibb's free energy of a system is a state function because it is defined in terms of thermodynamic properties that are state functions .The change in the Gibb's free energy of the system that occurs  during a reaction is therefore equal to the change in the enthalpy of the system minus the change in the product of the temperature times the entropy of the system .
                 deltaG = deltaH - delta(TS)


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