Entropy and temperature measure different properties of a sample of a substance, because temperature gauges average kinetic energy of molecules or atoms, but

A. entropy of an isolated system cannot decrease.
B. entropy measures disorderliness or unruliness.
C. low entropy substances cannot have a temperature.
D. entropy is the inverse of temperature, due to conservation of momentum.


Answer: B

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