A statement of the third law of thermodynamics made in a restricted form by Walter Nernst in 1906: if a chemical change takes place between pure crystalline solids at absolute zero there is no change of entropy.
Chemistry
A statement of the third law of thermodynamics in a restricted form given by Walter Nernst: if a chemical change takes place between pure crystalline solids at absolute zero there is no change of entropy. Nernst put forward his theorem in 1906.