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What is entropy?

a. a measure of the randomness of a system

b. work done on a system

c. heat flowing from cold to hot

d. a measure of the efficiency of a system

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Answer: Entropy, the measure of a system's thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work. Because work is obtained from ordered molecular motion, the amount of entropy is also a measure of the molecular disorder, or randomness, of a system.

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Answer:

a

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