Chemistry 9th Edition

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ISBN 10: 1133611095
ISBN 13: 978-1-13361-109-7

Chapter 17 - Spontaneity, Entropy, and Free Energy - Questions - Page 822: 13

Answer

Increasing entropy is the direction of time moving forward: time can be oriented in terms of the universe's entropy.

Work Step by Step

By the second law of thermodynamics, entropy always increases as time goes along.
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