Re: Re: Nanoparticles and thermodynamics




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> 2. Re: Nanoparticles and thermodynamics (cosine)
Do not forget that the laws of thermodynamics are _statistical_ ones.
The number of particles are much less for nanostrustures than in bulk
phases, so the _fluctuations_ are much more inmportant.
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