Why I Count Calories for a Living
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2022-03-17T16:00:00
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2022-03-17T17:00:00
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Calorimetry measures heat effects, so why should one care? Enthalpies of formation and phase transformation sing about making and breaking chemical bonds. Heat capacities and entropies dance about how atoms and electrons jostle each other, move, and disorder. Combining thermodynamic and structural studies provides illuminates what materials form in nature, in the lab, and in technology. I illustrate the insights gained from calorimetry by three examples from our work. (1) Zinc sulfide (ZnS) is important as a semiconductor and an ore mineral.
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Alexandra Navrotsky (Arizona State)
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Event Start:
2022-03-17T16:00:00
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2022-03-17T17:00:00
Why I Count Calories for a Living
Event Information:
Calorimetry measures heat effects, so why should one care? Enthalpies of formation and phase transformation sing about making and breaking chemical bonds. Heat capacities and entropies dance about how atoms and electrons jostle each other, move, and disorder. Combining thermodynamic and structural studies provides illuminates what materials form in nature, in the lab, and in technology. I illustrate the insights gained from calorimetry by three examples from our work. (1) Zinc sulfide (ZnS) is important as a semiconductor and an ore mineral.
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Connect via zoom