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Gibbs' paradox highlights an apparent contradiction in statistical mechanics regarding the entropy of mixing identical particles or gases. It arises when considering the entropy change associated with mixing two gases or ensembles of particles that are indistinguishable. In classical thermodynamics, when two different gases are mixed, the entropy of the system increases due to the increased number of available microstates.

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