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Questions relating to the various laws of thermodynamics, transformation or movement of a form of energy to another form, primarily but not limited to heating or cooling of a fluid.

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Is air a pure substance?

I was referring to some Thermodynamics text books and found that their definitions of a "pure substance" seem very subjective. … if a liquid phase should form on cooling, the liquid would have a different composition from the gas phase, and the system would no longer be considered a pure substance" (Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics