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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2776895, member: 24314&quot;]V. Kurt Bellman, posted: &quot;Most understand entropy as a measure of molecular disorder within a macroscopic system.&nbsp; Apparently, &quot;most&quot; people thinking about coins don&#039;t &quot;understand&quot; &quot;entropy&quot;, &quot;molecular&quot;, &quot;disorder&quot;, &quot;macroscopic&quot;, or &quot;system&quot;. Obviously, most of their intellectual skills are limited to &quot;ooh, shiny&quot;.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m in the &quot;most people&quot; group as I don&#039;t understand any of it - including that word &quot;entropy.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>PS I&#039;ll put the club that meets around Morristown, NJ up against any club in the nation as far as smarts.&nbsp; I forgot the club&#039;s name but I&#039;m pretty sure Dave Lange was one of its members. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now that this thread is gone into the weeds (I <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> just helped), I&#039;m going to add my definition of cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 102)">Cleaning is a chemical or mechanical operation on an item seeking to restore it as close as possible to its original state.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 102)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Note I don&#039;t agree with this one just posted but it is funny and gets the thread back on track:&nbsp; &quot;...the process of brightening a coin that results in a details grade.&quot;&nbsp; Cleaning does not always brighten a coin or cause it to be &quot;detailed.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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