For constant positive molar heat capacity, the ideal gas entropy grows without bound on isothermal dilution to unbounded volume, corresponding to . This is a meaningful limiting configuration count, not an infinite entropy in a finite container. Extrapolation to at fixed positive pressure instead predicts negative infinite entropy. That extrapolation fails: phase changes, quantum statistics and temperature-dependent heat capacities prevent a real equilibrium substance from retaining the same classical formula down to zero temperature.
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