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thermodynamics

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

The branch of physics concerned with heat, energy and how they transform from one form to another.

"The laws of thermodynamics explain why a perpetual motion machine can never actually work."

The second law of thermodynamics states that, left alone, disorder in a closed system only ever increases.