When you're sitting in a hospital room for 6-7 hours with nothing to do, you start to wonder dumb stuff like this. <BR><BR>Do atoms fall under the laws of thermodynamics? Take a hydrogen atom, with ...

Lead telluride only has one type of atom (lead) in the metal sites, leading to low entropy. In contrast, if the metal site can potentially be occupied by one of five metal atoms, the ways in which the ...