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> retains heat indefinitely What are the physics behind that, because it sounds like it violates the laws of thermodynamics.
by debacle 14y ago
> retains heat indefinitely
What are the physics behind that, because it sounds like it violates the laws of thermodynamics.
- olefoo 14y agoNo, your conversion of ambient heat to drying the zeolite and the inverse release of heat when adding water; are both less than perfectly efficient. Entropy grows at each step. The retention of heat in the dried zeolite is not a conversion step, and the total entropy of the system doesn't change during that time.