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van't hoff's law
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van't hoff's law, [After J. H. van't Hoff , Dutch physical chemist.].
The generalization that: when a system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature, the exothermic by lowering it. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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