Heat death is a hypothetical situation in which there is no more usable energy in the Universe. In relation to entropy, it means that entropy is at its maximum - it can't increase any more.
The term you are looking for is "entropy." Entropy refers to the measure of disorder or randomness in a system.
Entropy is a thermodynamic term. Re the hard boiling of an egg: You are going to a more "ordered" state , i.e., positive entropy. However, entropy in this case is overwhelmed by the -∆H which is the negative heat provided by the proteins hydrogen bonding. Thus, the energy driving force is the important term and not the entropy in this case.
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The 10 percent rule, often associated with energy transfer in ecosystems, suggests that only about 10 percent of the energy from one trophic level is passed on to the next, while the rest is lost as heat, contributing to entropy. Entropy, in thermodynamic terms, refers to the measure of disorder or randomness in a system, and as energy is dissipated, the overall entropy of the ecosystem increases. This interplay illustrates how energy transformations lead to increased disorder, underscoring the inefficiencies of energy transfer within ecological systems. Thus, the 10 percent rule highlights the inevitable increase in entropy as energy flows through trophic levels.
The physicist's term for a measure of messiness is "entropy", or occasionally, "indefinite solutions".
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The term is "entropy." Entropy refers to the measure of disorder or randomness in a system, and it tends to increase over time in isolated systems as they move towards equilibrium.
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The term "outcome" can relate to Cleo's regime, or to any of the plays or novels written about her. The historical outcome was Cleopatra's death and the annexing of Egypt by Rome. Her personal outcome was death and so was the outcome of the plays about her.
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