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neither heat nor chemical substances can travel from one to the other.
assumption of reversibility in the environment. It's for this reason that the
environment.
transfer of energy as work is still possible across the adiabatic walls, the
system is not adiabatically enclosed when some of the components are not
adiabatic.
An essential prerequisite for the measurability of energy is the existence of
walls that do not permit the transfer of energy in the form of heat, as
stated by one widely cited author, Herbert Callen. This highlights the
numbered law.