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Entropy of perfectly crystalline solid is taken as zero at 0 K.

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At 0 K , there is a perfectly ordered arrangement of the constituent particle of a pure crystalline substance and there is no disorder at all. Hence,its entropy is taken an zero. This statement is based on the third law of thermodynamics. The law is applied to find the absolute entropy of a substance in any state at any temperature.
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