Entropy driven radiation

✍ Scribed by Felix Gutmann

• Book ID: 103067269
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 197 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-4686
• DOI: 10.1016/0013-4686(87)90007-7

✦ Synopsis

has shown that biological systems dispose of their excess entropy by the emission of photons each carrying about 3.6 k entropy units, k being Boltzmann's Constant. It is here proposed to apply this argument to inorganic as well as to organic nontransient irreversible processes, which proceed wholly or nearly isothermally and in which the product has a higher degree of order or of organization than the initial states. The concept is applied to fuel cell reactions and to crystallization processes which thus should be accompanied by the emission of ir radiation capable of external detection.