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ther•mo•dy•nam•ics



Pronunciation: (thûr"mō-dī-nam'iks), [key]
n. (used with a sing. v.)
the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.

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thermodynamicthermodynamic system
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