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PLEASE HELP ME Which of the following is an example of -ΔS? Picking up marbles and placing them in a sack Paint spilling onto the floor from a can Grains of sand being dropped onto the carpet Dropping a drop of red dye into water

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Answer:

Picking up marbles and placing them in a sack

Step-by-step explanation:

The entropy of a chemical system is defined as the measure of disorder. Therefore a negative change in entropy is the movement to a more ordered state. The only option here which achieves a more ordered state, would be the first option.

Picking up marbles and placing them in a stack achieves more order, rather than the other options - that achieve more disorder.

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