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thermodynamics. This relation, which is a way of characterizing the phase transition between two states of matter such as solid and liquid, had originally been developed in 1834 by Émile Clapeyron.

Entropy

In 1865, Clausius gave the first mathematical version of the concept of entropy, and also gave it its name. Clausius chose the word because

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