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Which of the following is not true?a) A spontaneous process need not occur immediately.b) A spontaneous process is one that can proceed on its own.c) The reverse of a nonspontaneous process is always spontaneous.d) A spontaneous process must be exothermic and must have an increase in entropy

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Which of the following statements is true?
a) In any spontaneous process, the entropy of the system alwaysincreases.
b) All spontaneous processes are exothermic.
c) Any spontaneous process is accompanied by a positive free energychange.
d) In order for a process to be spontaneous, the process must beexothermic and the entropy of the system must increase.
e) None of the statements above are true.

I know the answer is e, but I don't know why the other answers werefalse and was hoping that someone could shine some light as to whya-d are false. Thanks!
In a spontaneous process:
In a spontaneous process:
the reverse process is alsospontaneous.
the path between reactants and productsis irreversible.
the forward reaction is alwaysexothermic.
the temperature is unimportant.

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