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    Journal of Chemical Education

    Cite this: J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 10, 1385
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    Published October 1, 1999

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    Simply changing the location of everyday macro objects from an arrangement that we commonly judge as orderly to one that appears disorderly is a "zero change" in the thermodynamic entropy of the objects because the number of accessible energetic microstates in any of them has not been changed.

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