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adiabatic process

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Is it possible for an engineering process to be fully adiabatic??

As far as we know, not really.

Thanks Gilded however can you (or anyone else) please explain why not?

I know as much physics as the average squirrel, but I remember it having something to do with the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

"Gilded was right. The second law, which holds for macroscopic systems, implies that fully adiabatic processes will not exist."

 

Yeah, exceptions in the microscopic scale. Btw, did Maxwell's demon have something to do with adiabatic processes?

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