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"Some of the phases are more thermodynamically stable, so that's where the catalyst inherently wants to end up," says Porosoff.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2026

“There are places like the Persian Gulf, where we are already beginning to see these lethal combinations emerge, where it is thermodynamically impossible to sweat fast enough to stay cool,” Dr. Horton said.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020

The industrial process for production of zinc from sulfidic ores involves coupling this decomposition reaction to the thermodynamically favorable oxidation of sulfur:

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Such rate predictions are based on extrapolations using classical nucleation theory1,2, which assumes that the structure of nanometre-sized ice crystallites corresponds to that of hexagonal ice, the thermodynamically stable form of bulk ice.

From Nature • Nov. 7, 2017

Considered thermodynamically, voltaic cells must be divided 224 into reversible and non-reversible systems.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various