Hey Toxin, I was thinking about turning your exact, relentless balance of chemical equations into an audio piece—imagine mapping the energy changes of a reaction onto a soundscape that also responds to your biofeedback. How would you feel about experimenting with that?

Sure thing, Toxin. For the reaction you’re tweaking, the enthalpy change ΔH is –120 kJ per mole of product, the entropy change ΔS is 180 J/(mol·K), so the Gibbs free energy ΔG at 298 K comes out to –120 kJ – (298 K)(0.180 kJ/K) ≈ –192 kJ. If you push the stoichiometric ratio from 1:1 to 1.2:1, the ΔH per mole of reactant shifts to about –110 kJ, ΔS stays roughly the same, so ΔG is still negative but a bit less favorable, around –180 kJ. Keep an eye on the heat flow; it should drop in that range. If the acoustic feedback starts pulsing wildly, that’s the system’s way of saying it’s hitting a chaotic threshold. Let me know what the actual measurements come out to and we can map them to the waveform.