What is entropy? What are its units?

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Entropy is a measure of the extent of molecular disorder or randomness. When matter becomes disordered, its entropy increases.
The unit of entropy is $\frac{J}{K}$ .

The entropy change can be expressed as:

$Δ S = \frac{q_{r e v}}{T}$

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