Ehrenfest model

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Ehrenfest model

noun

Etymology Named after Paul Ehrenfest and Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanaseva.

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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Thermodynamics A model of diffusion used to explain the second law of thermodynamics, considering a number of particles in two containers, which independently change container at a certain rate.

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