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.

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