Is a reaction that is exothermic and becomes more positionally random spontaneous or non spontaneous? What about less positionally random? Is there enough information to tell?
1 Answer
See this answer for the endothermic case.
For the exothermic case, the change in enthalpy
Therefore, the Gibbs' free energy is:
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#= (-) - (+)(+)#
#= (-) - (+)#
#= color(blue)((-))# which if you recall, is negative for a spontaneous reaction.
So, an exothermic reaction with increased motion (more "positional randomness") is spontaneous at all temperatures.
Less "positionally random" implies less motion and thus