Maxwell's demon
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Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment created by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867 in which he suggested how the second law of thermodynamics might hypothetically be violated.
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See also
- Brownian ratchet
- Chance and Necessity
- Catalysis
- Dispersive mass transfer
- Evaporation
- Gibbs paradox
- Hall effect
- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
- Joule–Thomson effect
- Laplace's demon
- Laws of thermodynamics
- Mass spectrometry
- Photoelectric effect
- Quantum tunnelling
- Schrödinger's cat
- Thermionic emission
- Vortex tube
- Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Entropy
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