It brings rigor to another question of statistical physics: How quickly does a highly organized system, such as compressed gas about to be released, reach its disordered equilibrium state?

他的工作也从数学上更严格地解决了另一个统计物理学问题，即高度组织的系统，比如压缩气体是如何快速发散并达到其平衡态？

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Although gas phase equilibrium was where everything started.

虽然气态平衡，已经说过了。

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Also if you want to calculate chemical equilibria in the liquid and gas phase, of course, now you've seen chemical equilibrium, so the amount of reaction depends on the composition.

如果你想计算液相，和气相的化学平衡，当然，你们知道化学平衡，反应的量决定于组分的比例。

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So the triple point is liquid solid, gas, all in equilibrium.

气态，固态，三相平衡,你可能会想。

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I could have that path be very slow and steady, so that at every point along the way, my gas is an equilibrium.

我可以很慢，很稳定地经过这条路径，因此在这条路径上的任意一点，气体都处于平衡态。

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If I've got a gas in a container, the pressure of the gas has to be the same everywhere in the container, otherwise it's not equilibrium.

如果把气体装进容器里，容器内各处气体的压强,应该是一样的，否则它就不是平衡的。

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