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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Thermodynamics_and_Statistical_Mechanics/Heat_and_Thermodynamics_(Tatum)/07%3A_The_First_and_Second_Laws_of_Thermodynamics/7.03%3A_Entropy
      Now it is true, when we come to the subjects of statistical mechanics, and statistical thermodynamics and mixing theory, that there is a sense in which the entropy of a system is some sort of measure ...Now it is true, when we come to the subjects of statistical mechanics, and statistical thermodynamics and mixing theory, that there is a sense in which the entropy of a system is some sort of measure of the state of disorder, in the sense that the more disordered or randomly mixed a system is, the higher its entropy, and random processes do lead to more disorder and to higher entropy.

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