chemical potential
noun Thermodynamics.
a quantity that determines the transport of matter from one phase to another: a component will flow from one phase to another when the chemical potential of the component is greater in the first phase than in the second.
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British Dictionary definitions for chemical potential
chemical potential
noun
a thermodynamic function of a substance in a system that is the partial differential of the Gibbs function of the system with respect to the number of moles of the substance
Symbol: μ