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State the third law of thermodynamics.

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It states that the entropy of pure crystalline substance at absolute zero is zero.
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It can be stated as it is impossible to lower the temperature of an object to absolute zero in a finite number of steps". Mathematically `lim_(T to 0) S=0`
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