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Re: thermal energy +- entropy



At 06:02 PM 3/2/00 -0700, Jim Green wrote:

entropy is a chemist's portion of the internal energy

Sorry, that's not right.

Entropy is not a form of energy. It doesn't have units of energy. It does
not stand in a one-to-one relation with energy. It obeys a subconservation
law which neither implies or is implied by the energy conservation law. It
is important to physicists, computer engineers, electrical engineers,
librarians and others -- not just chemists.