nonequilibrium thermodynamics
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nonequilibrium thermodynamics
(¦nän′ē·kwə′lib·rē·əm ′thər·mō·dī′nam·iks)
(thermodynamics) A quantitative treatment of irreversible processes and of rates at which they occur. Also known as irreversible thermodynamics.
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Prigogine, Ilya
(Russian-born Belgian chemist)
Lars Onsager
(Norwegian–American chemist)
Dynamics
(physics)
Year 1977
(in Science & Technology)
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