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THIS communication is based on the idea that certain difficulties in thermodynamics are the direct result of defects in the standard and indeed universal definition of a partial differential coefficient. A new definition is therefore proposed which is more correct and more helpful in thermodynamics and possibly in other branches of science.
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For example, see Kirkwood, J. G., and Oppenheim, I., Chemical Thermodynamics, 249 (McGraw-Hill Co., 1961).
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ELLIOTT, G. Partial Differentiation, with Special Reference to Thermodynamics. Nature 198, 1191–1192 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981191b0
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