entropy
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Hawking proposed that the size of a black hole's event horizon, the boundary beyond which even light cannot escape, is proportional to its entropy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The researchers propose that when the bonds break apart, the resulting increase in entropy, a measure of disorder, frees the atoms and makes melting easier.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
In contrast to the fragility of wine glasses or the toughness of granite, trees are antifragile—they develop resistance from exposure to stress, to entropy, to risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
On everyday scales, disorder — or entropy — tends to increase.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
This state would be less ordered, and hence have more entropy, than the initial state of two separate boxes.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Another challenge is to unify the different efforts within quantum steampunk—newfangled entropies, resource theories, fluctuation relations, quantum-thermal machines, and more.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2020
Had her eighty-four years of life uncovered any truth about the inherent entropies of marriage, or had Peggy elevated Elena’s moth-eaten memories to wisdom, to gospel, to oracular revelation?
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
One method involves the use of standard enthalpies and entropies to compute standard free energy changes, ΔG°, according to the following relation.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The masses of these molecules would suggest the opposite trend in their entropies.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
This picture is part of a series I call "entropies": of objects on their way to disappearance through age and decay.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2011
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Chemistry - High School
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