Why does entropy increase when an isolated supercooled liquid spontaneouslytransforms to a crystal?
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Entropy is a measure of the disorder or randomness in a system. In general, systems tend to evolve towards a state of higher entropy, as dictated by the second law of thermodynamics. Show more…
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