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- Development: The process of liberating a system from its previous set of limiting conditions. It is an amelioration of conditions or quality.
- Dissipative structure: A term invented by Ilya Prigogine to describe complex chemical structures undergoing the process of chemical change through the dissipation of entropy into their environment, and the corresponding importation of “negentropy” from their environment. Also known as syntropic systems.
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