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"In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as I have by me at the moment. (a) Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy of a system which cannot be converted into work by even a perfect heat engine.--Clausius. (b) Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which can be converted into work by a perfect engine.--Maxwell, following Tait. (c) Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which is not converted into work by our imperfect engines.--Swinburne. (d) Entropy (in a volume of gas) is that which remains constant when heat neither enters nor leaves the gas.--W. Robinson. (e) Entropy may be called the 'thermal weight', temperature being called the 'thermal height.'--Ibid. (f) Entropy is one of the factors of heat, temperature being the other.--Engineering.
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Let a drop of wine fall into a glass of water; whatever be the law that governs the internal movement of the liquid, we will soon see it tint itself uniformly pink and from that moment on, however we may agitate the vessel, it appears that the wine and water can separate no more. All this, and have explained, but the one who saw it in the cleanest way, in a book that is too little read because it is difficult to read, is , in his Principles of Statistical Mechanics.
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