antipredation strategies of marine worms

Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.

Dawson--lean and keen, tough and brown of skin, and so carelessly dressed that he looked as if he slept in his clothes--listened with the sympathetic, unwandering attention which men give only him who comes telling where and how they can make money.

[…] And now, our news are told, noble Crevecoeur, and what think you they resemble? A mine full charged with gunpowder, answered Crevecoeur, to which, I fear, it is my fate to bring the kindled linstock. Your news and mine are like flax and fire, which cannot meet without bursting into flame, or like certain chemical substances which cannot be mingled without an explosion.