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Granular materials

Taking the temperature

Nature volume 415, pages 594–595 (2002)Cite this article

The 'temperature' of a granular material depends on its entropy, but is hard to measure in the laboratory. So a theory that ties temperature to grain mobility and diffusion is welcome.

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