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noun Thermodynamics.

Gibbs function.

Helmholtz function.

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How to use free energy in a sentence

While the latter potentially provides free energy anywhere, not all systems are reliable and it is often the slowest option.
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Many of the borrowers were retired, according to officials, and many had incomes that put government free energy assistance programs — an alternative for some homeowners — just out of reach.
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I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
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In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.
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Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
How the PC Police Threaten Free Speech|Nick Gillespie|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
How the PC Police Threaten Free Speech|Nick Gillespie|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.
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What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.
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This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.
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British Dictionary definitions for free energy

free energy

noun

a thermodynamic property that expresses the capacity of a system to perform work under certain conditionsSee Gibbs function, Helmholtz function

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Scientific definitions for free energy

free energy

A thermodynamic quantity that is the difference between the internal energy of a system and the product of its absolute temperature and entropy. Free energy is a measure of the capacity of the system to do work. If its value is negative, the system will have a tendency to do work spontaneously, as in an exothermic chemical reaction. Free energy is measured in kilojoules per mole. Also called Gibbs free energy