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What does nonequilibrium mean?

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  1. The condition of not being in equilibrium
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Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977 for contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
In addition focusing exclusively on distribution functions opens the possibility that macroscopic nonequilibrium models are irreducibly indeterministic, an indeterminism that has nothing to do with ignorance about the system.
In contrast, the nonequilibrium properties describe how a system responds to some external action, such as the imposition of a temperature or pressure difference.
They arise primarily in biology, but soft-matter and nonequilibrium statistical physics are essential to understanding them.
Physiological biochemistry has emphasized the role of key regulatory enzymes that display allosteric control and nonequilibrium reaction states.
Estimating mortality from mean length data in nonequilibrium situations, with application to the assessment of goosefish.

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