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First attested in 1867, as the translation of GermanEntropie, coined in 1865 by Rudolph Clausius in analogy to Energie(“energy”), replacing the root of Ancient Greekἔργον(érgon, “work”) by Ancient Greekτροπή(tropḗ, “transformation”)).
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^ Clinton D. Stoner (2001 November 7) “Inquiries into the Nature of Free Energy and Entropy in Respect to Biochemical Thermodynamics”, in arXiv, →DOI, arXiv: physics/0004055