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Why doesn’t a broken wineglass spontaneously fix itself, from a thermodynamic point of view?

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deff fn [24]3 years ago

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Answer:

C.Fixing a wineglass requires a large decrease in entropy.

Explanation:

Decrease in entropy is a non spontaneous process.

Entropy is the measure of randomness or disorder. For a process to be spontaneous the disorder or the randomness should increase. In a spontaneous process entropy increase or becomes positive.

A broken wine glass has more disorder than an unbroken glass. So a broken wine glass does not spontaneously fix itself as that would lead to a decrease in entropy.

Anarel [89]3 years ago

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C. Fixing a wineglass requires a large decrease in entropy.

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