Sunday, August 26, 2007


in sweet tea news--Cool drinks and the inevitable arrow of time

"Although we have been describing a gas, entropy works the same way for any type of material, including your icy drink. While the ice and water in your glass is relatively cold, the temperature of the air around it, especially in the hot summer months, is much warmer. The randomly moving molecules in the air will attempt to spread out to the cooler ice and water. Eventually, the entropy of the ice and water will increase, the ice will melt to water, and finally the water will warm to the same temperature of the surrounding air..."