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A piston-cylinder device contains Xenon gas. During a reversible, adiabatic process, the entropy of the gas will (never, sometimes, always) increase.

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Never

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In a reversible adiabatic process, there is not transfer of heat or matter between the system and its environment. An adiabatic reversible process is a process with constant entropy, i.e ΔQ=0. The internal energy is solely dependent on the work done either due to compression or expansion. So the entropy of the gas will never increase.

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