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. 2011 Apr 11;108(17):6843–6846. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1014804108

Table 2.

Rotational, vibrational, and translational contributions to the entropic term -TΔS for liquid methane and a mixture of ethane and hydrogen, at T = 2,000 K and P = 4 GPa

-TS (eV) Rotation Vibration Translation Total
Methane −26.5(2) −78.5(1) −94.0(7) −199(1)
Ethane −20.3(1) −99.5(1) −50.5(4) −170.3(6)
Hydrogen −7.6(5) −5.7(1) −41.1(3) −54.4(9)
-TΔS/CH4 −0.02(2) −0.55(3) 0.04(2) −0.53(5)

T is the temperature and S is the entropy