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What term means procedures that prevent contamination by microbes?
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Asepsis
What is the scientific field that studies microscopic organisms?
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Microbiology
Which French scientist showed that fermentation is caused by living microorganisms?
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Louis Pasteur
What is the name for a process that can be reversed without increasing total entropy?
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reversible process
Which relation gives Carnot efficiency as one minus cold temperature divided by hot temperature?
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η = 1 - TC/TH
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What is the scientific field that studies microscopic organisms?
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Microbiology
Which French scientist showed that fermentation is caused by living microorganisms?
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Louis Pasteur
What is the name for a process that can be reversed without increasing total entropy?
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reversible process
Who introduced the term 'thermodynamics' in an 1849 paper?
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William Thomson
At constant entropy and volume, which thermodynamic potential is minimized at equilibrium?
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internal energy
Which thermodynamic potential is usually denoted by G?
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Gibbs free energy
What theorem is the historical basis of the third law of thermodynamics?
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Nernst heat theorem