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Dedicated to Clifford Truesdell on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday

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Dafermos, C.M. The second law of thermodynamics and stability. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 70, 167–179 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00250353

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