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Glossary of Terms Used in Physical Organic Chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994): E entries by 
Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13Publisher: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Online text: iupac.qmul.ac.uk/gtpoc/E.html
Cited passages: IUPAC Recommendations 1994, enthalpy of activation entry; IUPAC Recommendations 1994, entries enthalpy of activation and entropy of activation: definitions, relation to Ea, and standard-state qualifications; IUPAC Recommendations 1994, entropy of activation entry.
By Svante Arrhenius.
Online text: webserver.lemoyne.edu/giunta/arrlaw.html
By Noriaki Kamaya, Kenji Homma, Yuichiro Yamakawa, Masaaki Hirayama, Ryoji Kanno, Masao Yonemura, Takashi Kamiyama, Yuki Kato, Shigenori Hama, Koji Kawamoto, Akio Mitsui.
Published in Nature Materials.
Online text: www.nature.com/articles/nmat3066
Cited passages: Abstract: Li10GeP2S12 has room-temperature lithium ionic conductivity; full text is subscription content.
By John E. Straub.
Publisher: Boston University.
Cited passages: Understanding: water and sodium chloride lamp observations; sucrose paragraph explicitly reports a weak filament glow.
Conductivity of Solutions by Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-14
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-14Publisher: Harvard University.
Cited passages: Comments: association into ion pairs at high concentration; Setting it Up; Comments: salt added to distilled water makes it conductive.
Cited passages: Conductivity of Solutions, Abstract: lamp readout in an ionic solution; Setting it Up: about 150 mL samples in 250 mL beakers, metal electrodes enclosed in tubing, and a separate deionized-water rinse station. The institutional issuer supplies no named human author or publication date; the classification and electrode-direction wording in How it Works is not adopted as a general rule.
Triatomic Spectral Database by National Institute of Standards and Technology by Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Fundamental Physical Constants — Complete Listing by National Institute of Standards and Technology and others by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-14
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-14Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Online text: physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/Table/allascii.txt
Cited passages: 2022 CODATA complete listing: electron volt, elementary charge and Avogadro constant.
Cited passages: NIST's current constants table, 2022 CODATA adjustment: vacuum electric permittivity; NIST, 2022 CODATA complete table: Newtonian constant of gravitation and its standard uncertainty; NIST, 2022 CODATA constants; NIST, CODATA constants: Wien displacement law constants.
Cited passages: Current adjustment heading, next-adjustment notice and data-content update.
By E. W. Kaiser.
Published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.
Publisher: AIP Publishing.
Online text: pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/53/5/1686/697576/Dipole-Moment-and-Hyperfine-Parameters-of-H35Cl
Cited passages: Kaiser, Dipole Moment and Hyperfine Parameters of H35Cl and D35Cl (1970), pp. 1686–1703, authored abstract; full text unavailable.
High Resolution Molecular Beam Study of Alkali Cyanides by Johannes Jacobus van Vaals by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-14
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-14Publisher: Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen.
Cited passages: van Vaals, High Resolution Molecular Beam Study of Alkali Cyanides (1983), chapter I §2, printed pp. 11–14: fields A, C and B, detected flux, parallel plates, radiation and detector.
Chapter III carries a coauthor credit to Johannes Jacobus van Vaals, Wilhelmus Leonardus Meerts and Antoni Dymanus; the whole thesis remains credited to Johannes Jacobus van Vaals.
Hydrogen chloride: Constants of diatomic molecules by Klaus P. Huber and others by Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Online text: webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C7647010&Mask=1000
HCl (Hydrogen chloride): experimental data by National Institute of Standards and Technology by Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Online text: cccbdb.nist.gov/exp2x.asp?casno=7647010&charge=0
A New Electroaffinity Scale; Together with Data on Valence States and on Valence Ionization Potentials and Electron Affinities by Robert S. Mulliken by Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13Published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.
Publisher: AIP Publishing.
Online text: cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1362825894909778176
Cited passages: Mulliken, A New Electroaffinity Scale (1934), authored abstract: average of ionization potential and electron affinity, suitable valence states and empirical limitations; full paper unavailable.
Published in Molecules.
Publisher: MDPI.
Online text: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9737094/
Cited passages: Batsanov, Energy Electronegativity and Chemical Bonding (2022), §1 equation (1), coefficients for eV, kcal/mol and kJ/mol; §2.2, dependence on other bond properties.
The Nature of the Chemical Bond. IV. The Energy of Single Bonds and the Relative Electronegativity of Atoms by Linus Pauling by Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13By Linus Pauling.
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Publisher: American Chemical Society.
Online text: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja01348a011
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry.
IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology (Gold Book) by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry by Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13Publisher: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
By Michael Faraday.
Cited passages: Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity, Seventh Series (1834), §783 and §§789–791, printed pp. 101–103.
Elektrolyse, Bestimmung von e by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Faculty of Physics teaching laboratory by Codex 0 2026-10-13
Codex 0 2026-10-13Cited passages: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Elektrolyse, Bestimmung von e, Durchführung: before/after weighing, rinsing, drying and mechanical loss; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Elektrolyse, Bestimmung von e, Grundlagen equations (4)–(5): first and second Faraday laws; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Elektrolyse, Bestimmung von e, Grundlagen: copper electrodes and copper sulfate solution.
Online text: spark.iop.org/electrolysis-copper-sulfate-solution
Cited passages: Institute of Physics, Electrolysis of copper sulfate solution, Apparatus and Materials; Procedure steps 1–4; Teaching Notes.
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