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Response to book review:The kind of motion we call heat

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This book was reviewed inJ. Stat. Phys. 18 (4) (1978).

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Brush, S.G. Response to book review:The kind of motion we call heat . J Stat Phys 18, 523–528 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01014521

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