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Chemical equilibrium

"J.W. Gibbs suggested in 1873 that equilibrium is attained when the Gibbs energy of the system is at its minimum value (assuming the reaction is carried out under constant pressure). What this means is, the time derivative of the Gibbs energy vanishes, signalling a stationary point. This derivative is usually called, for certain historical and technical reasons, the Gibbs energy change <ref>Physical Chemistry by Atkins, De Paula</ref>."

This quotation is out of context and exemplifies a fundamental misunderstanding of the subject matter. Gibbs made no reference to time; indeed it is well known that thermodynamics has nothing to say regarding kinetics and vice versa. Furthermore, I have searched Atkins' Physical Chemistry (Atkins and de Paula, 8th edition) and cannot find any reference to "time derivative" or "stationary point" in the chapter on equilibrium.

You are mistaken when you say expertise is not important. In a technical subject such as this it is important that editors fully understand the material they are editing. Petergans 13:53, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA

I'm sorry to let you know your RfA didn't succeed. I suggest you read and take to heart the opinions expressed by the participant. Many current admins did not succeed on their first tries. -- Cecropia 17:29, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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Joy Basu article

Hi. I came to this article as part of a link maintenance effort and have 3 comments that I left at Talk:Joy Basu:

  1. I replaced the external link to bayleaf.co.nr with one to bayleaf.50webs.com. It's the same material, just a different URL. We're replacing links to co.nr with other links; for more details, see meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#700 URL redirection links to clean up.
  2. Even though this article survived an AfD, it still fails to meet the very specific requirements of the "Criteria for notability of people" section of WP:BIO, so I tagged it for notability. Perhaps someone can find a reference to meet the requirements.
  3. I was surprised to see that there appeared to be no similar article on the Bengali Misplaced Pages (bn.wikipedia.org); if bn.wikipedia editors have not authored an article, might that mean they don't think the subject is notable? Or maybe they just need a similar article.

Thanks, --A. B. 17:17, 17 June 2007 (UTC)