third law of thermodynamics

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   law stating that the entropy of a substance approaches zero as its temperature approaches absolute zero

   Broaderlaw of thermodynamics

Questions about third law of thermodynamics

What does third law of thermodynamics mean?

third law of thermodynamics means "law stating that the entropy of a substance approaches zero as its temperature approaches absolute zero".

Is third law of thermodynamics a common word?

third law of thermodynamics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.