CONCEPTUAL PHYSICAL SCIENCE(LL)-PACKAGE
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Chapter 17, Problem 80E
Wild plants readily grow “all by themselves,” yet the molecules of the growing plant have less entropy than the materials used to make the plant. How is it possible for there to be this decrease in entropy for a process that occurs all by itself?
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