“Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.”
Quote by Lord Kelvin
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Lord Kelvin
Physicist, born on June 26, 1824, and died on December 17, 1907. Known for his contributions to thermodynamics and the invention of the thermodynamic thermometer. more
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