Chemistry / Unit 11 Chem 2080 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Entropy Rises with Temperature
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The idea
Raising a substance's temperature raises its entropy, since particles access a broader spread of kinetic energies at higher temperature.
In practice
Cooking oil at 200 °C has higher entropy than the same oil sample at 110 °C.
Where people slip
Treating heating across a phase change as if entropy rose smoothly with temperature alone misses the large, discontinuous jump at the transition itself.
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