Pentcho Valev wrote:
>... it can be shown that the ideal gas model is not just wrong - it is
>fatal for chemical thermodynamics...
As a newcomer to this list I now see what has become of Mr Valev since he
stopped sending a lot of rubish (his description, not mine; if it had been
me I would have spelled it differently) to the Bionet BTK-MCA list
(http://www.bio.net/hypermail/btk-mca/) a couple of years ago. After quite
a lot of soul searching, not to mention serious efforts from several people
to deal seriously with his inane questions and to examine his points one by
one, it became obvious that we were just going round in circles and that
the simplest thing to do would be to set up a FAQ page that one could refer
to each time the same question came up, and this is what we did
(http://ir2lcb.cnrs-mrs.fr/~athel/valevfaq.htm). This proved remarkably
successful: within a day or so after the FAQ page was ready we stopped
hearing from Mr Valev.
I was beginning to feel that it had outlived its usefulness when Eric
Scerri kindly drew my attention to the contributions Mr Valev makes to this
list. Looking through the archives (especially from last October) makes it
clear that although some of the details have changed the main message from
Mr Valev is the same as it has been for several years: thermodynamics
contains serious errors, chemistry teachers prefer to hide these rather
than discuss them openly, textbook authors are dishonest, etc., etc.
Of course, I would not for a moment want to try to stop anyone who has the
time and energy from trying to educate Mr Valev (especially because there
is a genuine danger that if his questions go unanswered the less expert
subscribers to the list may think they have some merit and cannot be
answered). Nonetheless, I fear that in practice any such attempts will
prove to be unrewarding.
Athel Cornish-Bowden
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