BioPHYSICAL chemistry

specific heat 31–38, 63 – 66

spin 257–260

spin– orbital coupling 264 –265

spinal muscular atrophy 35 –358

standard temperature and pressure 38

state function 25 –26, 34 –36, 63 – 66

states of matter 2

stimulated emission 298, 300 –301

succinate dehydrogenase 127

surface tension 79 – 82

synchrotron 332–334

systems 23 –25

Teller, Edward 423

temperature, definition 5 – 6

temperature scales 6

third law of thermodynamics 53 –54

thiyl radical 370

toxin 29

transcriptional activator 29

transition dipole moment 298 –299,

301–302

transitions 204 –207, 229 –230,

253 –254, 296 –300

transporters 14, 394 –397

transverse relaxation– optimized

spectroscopy (TROSY) 352–357

triple bond 67

triple point 73

tunneling 209 –218

electron 111

proton 111

tyrosyl radical 433 – 436

UN Intergovermental Panel on

Climate Change 44

urease 148

valence bonds 275 –276

van der Waals’ equation 11

van der Waals’ interactions 57

van Niel, Cornelius 421

van’t Hoff equation 88

Walker, John 129

water oxidation 430 – 436

Watson, James 19

wave–particle duality 182–184

wavefunction, definition 184 –191

work, definition 29 –30

yellow fluorescent protein 408 – 409

zeorth law of thermodynamics 1

zero-point energy 201

zinc finger 288

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