Gibbs' Paradox -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

In a simple derivation based of the ideal gas law, the entropy S is not an extensive variable as it must be. This is known as the Gibbs' paradox. The difficulty is resolved by letting the particles be indistinguishable.

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