Residual entropy

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What exactly contributes to the residual entropy of a substance?

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The residual entropy of a substance is contributed by the disorder or randomness present in the arrangement of its particles, particularly at low temperatures where the system doesn't fully settle into its lowest energy state.

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Residual entropy is brought about by attempting to bring the system to as low a temperature as possible(T=0) and the microstates and positions that occur as it goes down to that lower energy state.

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Residual entropy refers to the entropy present in a crystalline substance at absolute zero temperature (0K), resulting from the substance's inherent disorder in its perfectly ordered state. This disorder can stem from different equivalent arrangements of the atoms or molecules within the crystal that are indistinguishable energetically but contribute to the overall entropy due to their multiplicity, leading to a non-zero entropy value even at 0K.