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Bluff Your Way in the Second Law of Thermodynamics

✍ Scribed by Jos Uffink

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 576 KB
Volume: 32
Category: Article
ISSN: 1355-2198
DOI: 10.1016/s1355-2198(01)00016-8

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