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thermodynamics, Physics

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thermodynamics, branch of science concerned with the nature of heat and its conversion to mechanical, electric, and chemical energy. Historically, it grew out of efforts to construct more efficient heat engines : devices for extracting useful work from expanding hot gases.



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