1. a) Why is chemical potential analogous to temperature and pressure?b) Under what circumstance can the entropy of a system decrease for a spontaneous process?

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1. a) Why is chemical potential analogous to temperature and pressure?
b) Under what circumstance can the entropy of a system decrease for a spontaneous process?

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The energy that can be released or absorbed due to the change of number of particles of the given species is known as chemical potential.

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Chemical potential is related to the temperature and pressure as shown below:

There is no net flow of energy between two systems if they have same temperature.
There is no net change of volume if the two systems have the same pressure.
There is no net flow of particles if the two systems have same chemical potential.

If two systems have same temperature and have only one chemical species and the same value of chemical potential then there will be no net flux of particle from one side to the other side.

If the chemical potential is different then there will be net flux.

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