Spontaneity
Spontaneity: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Spontaneity, Spontaneous Reactions, and Non-spontaneous Reactions.
Important Questions on Spontaneity

Which of the following reaction is expected never to be spontaneous?

Which of the following processes is nonspontaneous?

Is heat transfer from ice to room at spontaneous?

Is flow of heat from cold object to hot object spontaneous?

Is spreading of fragrance when a bottle of perfume is opened, spontaneous?

Is separation of and from their mixture, spontaneous?

Is dissolution of sugar in hot coffee spontaneous?


A change that can occur on its own is called


For a given reaction, and . The reaction is spontaneous at (Assume that and do not vary with temperature):

Which of the following processes is a non-spontaneous process?

In which of the following reactions, standard reaction entropy change is positive and standard Gibb's energy change decreases sharply with increasing temperature?

The factor of values is important in metallurgy. The values for the following reactions at are given as:
The for the reaction,
; will be

In an irreversible process taking place at constant T and P and in which only pressure volume work is being done, the change in Gibb's free energy and change in entropy , satisfy the criteria

Which reaction either endothermic or exothermic characteristics has the greater chance of occuring spontaneously?

For a reaction and
Which of the following statements is correct for the reaction?

If a process is both endothermic and spontaneous , then :

Considering entropy as a thermodynamic parameter, the criterion for the spontaneity of any process is
