ΔS° 中的 S 是 entropy ,叫做熵或「亂度」,由亂度一詞可以更清晰它的意義,After mixing nitrogen and oxygen, it is quite obvious that the degree of randomness increase. So, ΔS° = +。It is given by Boltzmann's equation that S= k ln ω,where ω is the number of corresponding microstate.