Excerpt from Standard States for Bomb CalorimetryFor the purpose of recording such thermodynamic quantities as heat of formation, free energy of formation, entropy of formation, heat content, etc, for chemical substances, it is necessary to adopt some standard reference state, at least for each of the chemicals elements.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.