entropy
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This increasing complexity is driven by interactions between entropy and exchange forces.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
The latter says the entropy of a closed system—commonly understood as its degree of disorder—can never decrease.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Viewed through an entropy lens, travel therapy could become a meaningful health intervention, Ms. Hu said.
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
In these cases, assumptions about the past are used to support conclusions, such as the reliability of memory or the direction in which entropy increases.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
To stay alive, you have to be able to hold out against equilibrium, maintain imbalance, bank against entropy, and you can only transact this business with membranes in our kind of world.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing entropy
Chemistry - High School
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The ACT Science Test: Physics Review
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Mechanical Engineering
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