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. 2009 Jul 1;92(2):93–112. doi: 10.3184/003685009X458660a

Inorganic Energetics from Mainframe to “back-of-envelope”

Harry Donald 1, Brooke Jenkins 1
PMCID: PMC10361129  PMID: 19697710

Abstract

On Thursday, 16 April 2009, Professor H. Donald. B. Jenkins presented an Exaugural Lecture to a packed audience at the University of Warwick, at a Symposium held to honour his retirement and to celebrate his 44-year career. This is a transcript of that lecture, which describes the evolution of a new approach to thermodynamics: volume-based thermodynamics (VBT) which is gaining in popularity and which is relatively simple to use. Reported also are a number of other simple relationships, capable of estimation of standard thermodynamic data, currently under development. Some of these are immensely powerful and they are described.

Keywords: modern thermodynamics, volume-based thermodynamics, thermodynamic solvate difference rule

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