![]() ![]() ![]() By "useful", we mean work other than that which is associated with the expansion of the system. The “free” part of the older name reflects the steam-engine origins of thermodynamics with its interest in converting heat into work: ΔG is the maximum amount of energy which can be “freed” from the system to perform useful work.
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