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    1. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 12 Aug 2019
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      System = the whole thing. Like the contents of your freezer. Not specifically the H2O molecules. The surrounding air + water looks disorganized. Then suddenly, order. Yet entropy has increased. That's the point.

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    2. Ryan Reece‏ @RyanDavidReece 12 Aug 2019
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      then your OP is less mysterious, because the disorder of the total system has increased, it's just not localized in flakes to which we attend.

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    3. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 12 Aug 2019
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      No, you're still missing the point. The *apparent* disorder has decreased. The freezer with ice crystals in it looks more organized than when it had liquid water. That's the entire point: apparent disorder as perceived by humans is not the same as thermodynamic entropy.

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    4. bgc‏ @blockspins 12 Aug 2019
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      There are some systems where a crystalline state actually has higher entropy than the corresponding liquid state! For instance, consider a packing of chopsticks or other hard rods (a crude model for the nematic liquid crystals in LCDs). Compare the "crystalline" state where ...

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    5. bgc‏ @blockspins 12 Aug 2019
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      the rods are aligned to the "liquid" state where the rods are pointing in random directions. At sufficiently high fixed density, the *aligned* rods are entropically preferred because they have much more space to move around than the randomly-oriented rods.

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    6. bgc‏ @blockspins 12 Aug 2019
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      That is, the difference in positional entropy more than outweighs the slight decrease in orientational entropy. This phenomenon is called "order by disorder"; see e.g. this survey by Daan Frenkel for many other examples https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00501-9 …

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    7. Ryan Reece‏ @RyanDavidReece 12 Aug 2019
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      interesting. as i understand, you are not arguing that this is the case for a snowflake.

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    8. bgc‏ @blockspins 12 Aug 2019
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      That's right, the entropy of ice is less than the entropy of liquid water (by about 1220 J/(K * kg) at 0ºC and 1 atm).

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    9. bgc‏ @blockspins 12 Aug 2019
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      When studying phase transitions, it's usually more convenient to consider closed systems that can exchange energy with their environment (as opposed to isolated systems). Under those conditions, the 2nd law corresponds to the decrease of the ...

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    10. bgc‏ @blockspins 12 Aug 2019
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      system's Helmholtz free energy F = E - TS, where E is the internal energy, T the temperature and S the entropy. In equilibrium, ∆F=0, so increases of entropy at constant temperature have to be compensated for by corresponding increases of internal energy.

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      Since heat is *released* when water freezes, ∆E < 0 and so ∆S < 0 as well. The specific heat of fusion of water is roughly 3.30e5 J/kg – divide this by 273K to get the entropy difference.

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