Look in your text for Go, then
delta Go(rxn) = delta Go(products) - delta Go(reactants). + not sponeaneous, - is spontaneous.
It has been proposed that wood alcohol, CH3OH, a relatively inexpensive fuel to produce, be decomposed to produce methane. Methane is a natural gas, commonly used for heating homes. is a decomposition from wood alcohol to methane and oxygen thermodynamically feasible at 25 degrees celsius and 1 atm.
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