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26 Post author: spxtr 17 December 2014 08:04AM

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Comment author: spxtr 22 January 2015 08:00:24PM 2 points [-]

You probably know this, but average energy per molecule is not temperature at low temperatures. Quantum kicks in and that definition fails. dS/dE never lets you down.

Comment author: gjm 22 January 2015 10:05:33PM 0 points [-]

Whoops! Thanks for the correction.

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