Your explanation made me think of sodium acetate heater pads, they go from being supersaturated to rapidly crystallising and giving off heat. I believe the supersaturated state has more energy because all the molecules would be more relaxed in a crystal, I'm not sure about entropy in this case though as both the supersaturated high-energy state has order, and the crystal state has order too. Since entropy is a measure of disorder right, I guess the crystal is actually more disordered than the solution???
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Matthias Bock <mail@matthiasbock.net> wrote:
> I don't understand it myself; as you say, it's all down to
an increase in entropy. :)Yes, I think I don't fully understand it either.I think of it as protons, which are accelerated in the Thermogenin channeldue to the present gradient, because they are so to say attracted by the other side of the membrane,and that this velocity dissipates through hits on other molecules,such that the average molecule velocities locally increase, corresponding to increase in temperature.Or maybe it's totally different :-)LG--To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/diybio/-/gYmIiMTMGscJ.
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