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To: spunkets

Why?


41 posted on 09/12/2007 3:06:42 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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You asked if the mass change could be due to a change in entropy. The Pt-Ir alloy has a stable crystal structure. 50 µg of mass is worth 4.5*109J of energy. An entropy change is a configurational energy change at some temp T. See the problem?
60 posted on 09/12/2007 3:28:52 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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