free energy
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- (physics, chemistry) The energy that is available in a particular chemical system to do useful work. In more detail:
- The Helmholtz free energy, A (the internal energy of a system minus the product of its entropy and absolute temperature)
- The Gibbs free energy, G (the enthalpy of a system minus the product of its entropy and absolute temperature)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see free, energy.
- free energy suppression (the notion that exotic energy systems are deliberately suppressed in order to protect the fossil fuel industry and suchlike)
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free energy of any type
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- Jeffrey J. W. Baker with Garland E. Allen (1965) Matter, Energy, And Life, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., §5.2, page 53