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Entropy principle: Salt crystals evaporated from salt solution with high degree of order

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Water evaporates from a salt solution and leaves behind salt crystals that have a higher degree of molecular order than the more randomly moving molecules in the salt water. Has the entropy principle been violated? why or why not?

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