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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
What's enthalpy, mojo?
It's not cool, not fun to say, and no one is happy about it, frankly.
Well, I guess... chemists think it's kinda cool, but really... who trusts a chemist? All of us? Shit. You mean I can't just blow this off 'cause it's hard? Fine.
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Fine.
FINE! I'm doing it, OK?!
Gets to the point around 3:00 minutes in and makes a pretty good and simple argument to understand it over the next 2 minutes.
Whole video is pretty good, and better than I could explain on my own, and has cool animations and stuff ... and things.
I learned about it in Thermodynamics in college, but it hasn't come up since then in my work.
My actual definition without research would have been:
It's one of about 30-ish forms energy can take and sneak around in, and it's one of the less intuitive ones.
Turn out I would've been kinda right and kinda wrong because it's a sum of other energies, so not technically one of the forms energy can take, but more just a convenient package of a couple forms of energy to make math easier.
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