Shuffled Cards, Messy Desks, and Disorderly Dorm Rooms-Examples of Entropy Increase? Nonsense!

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1385-1387

  Lambert, Frank L ^a,b  

^a Occidental College ^*  (United States)

^b OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0346739104     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p1385     Document Type: Article

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