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TrashPosterInTheDark
The second law doesn't claim that the entropy of any part of a system increases: if it did, ice would never form and vapor would never condense, since both of those processes involve a
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decrease of entropy. Rather, the second law says that the total entropy of the whole system must increase. http://physics.gmu.edu/~roerter/EvolutionEntropy.htm