An increase in the entropy of a system can be described as an increase in the total amount of _____ of a system.
A) kinetic energy
B) potential energy
C) oxidative energy
D) disorder
E) order

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Entropy is a measure of the disorder of a system. As entropy increases, the system becomes more disordered, and there are more ways for the energy to be distributed among the particles in the system. This is why an increase in entropy is often associated with an increase in randomness, disorder, or chaos within a system. Kinetic energy, potential energy, and oxidative energy are not measures of disorder, therefore they are not the best choices for describing an increase in entropy. Order is the opposite of disorder, so an increase in order would not be consistent with an increase in entropy.

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