What is the sign convention of work and heat when it comes to chemical thermodynamics?

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For both work and heat, there are positive and negative signs, which mainly depend on transfer of energy. When work is done on the system, it will have a negative sign, but when work is done by the system, we will use a positive sign. This would be similar to how we view heat in chemical thermodynam

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