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• a  of or concerned with thermodynamics
  the thermodynamic limit

• Once thermodynamics was codified, it was clear that Fludd and the hundreds who followed him had been doomed to failure before they began.
• These might be the key theorems in math, the laws of thermodynamics in science or the relationship between supply and demand in economics.
• No diet has ever been able to defy the laws of thermodynamics.

• thermodynamical

News & Articles

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• How quickly can a bacterium grow? E. coli can replicate close to thermodynamic limits of efficiency
  All living things must obey the laws of physics -- including the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the universe's disorder, or entropy, can only grow. Highly ordered cells and organisms appear to contradict this principle, but they actually do conform because they generate heat that increases the universe's overall entropy.
  Aug. 27, 2013 - Science Daily
• How quickly can a bacterium grow?
  ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) Physicist finds that E. coli replicate close to thermodynamic limits of efficiency.
  Aug. 27, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Nick Lane in Oneindia
  Thermodynamic constraints mean that chemiosmosis is strictly necessary for carbon and energy metabolism in all organisms that grow from simple chemical ingredients [autotrophy] today, and presumably the first free-living cells,said Lane.
• Donald Kennedy in American Chronicle
  Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science, wrote in 2006 that "hurricane intensity has increased with oceanic surface temperatures over the past 30 years. The physics of hurricane intensity growth : has clarified and explained the thermodynamic...
• Gabor Somorjai in Chemie.de (press release)
  My main point is that the criteria employed have little to do with sustainability as it is understood from a thermodynamic, biological point of view, that the term 'sustainable' is not defined by Corporate Knights or Innovest, and that the... Paul Hawken http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hawken&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGM3jxNsjOegfFmPh5XW70yMcaPTQ SocialFunds.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/article1914.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGkfDQkjsPTVQOsDDfZ5qqE1x8SIw Jan 28, 2006 99474 132047 thermodynamically We've discovered that the presence of carbon monoxide molecules can reversibly alter the catalytic surfaces of platinum single crystals, supposedly the most thermodynamically stable configuration for a platinum catalyst," said Somorjai, one of...