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Activities of Life and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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I AM anxious to treat Prof. Donnan's views with all courtesy, but think his last letter, written in conjunction with Prof. Guggenheim, is entirely invalidated, like his previous letter, by a technical error in thermodynamics.

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JEANS, J. Activities of Life and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Nature 133, 612 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133612a0

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