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  1. Faculté des Sciences (CP 231), Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050, Bruxelles

    Ilya Prigogine

  2. Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics (RLM-7), The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, Texas, USA

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Prigogine, I. What is entropy?. Naturwissenschaften 76, 1–8 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00368303

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