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Entropy is a measure of disorder, explain.

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Entropy, the measure of a system's thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work. Since the work is obtained from ordered molecular motion, thus the amount of entropy is also a measure of the molecular disorder, or randomness, of a system.

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