It is often caused by gallstones. Common symptoms are severe pain in the upper abdomen, nausea, and vomiting. Treatment is usually a few days in the hospital for intravenous (IV) fluids, antibiotics, and medicines to relieve pain. Chronic pancreatitis does not heal or improve.
Definition of Entropy. Entropy is a thermodynamic measure of the disorder in a system. The entropy of a reaction is calculated by comparing the disorder of the products and reactants. An increase in entropy corresponds to an increase in disorder and a dispersion of energy. An important example of a system with increasing entropy is water boiling to make steam, where the molecules have much more freedom and are more disordered.
Measuring Entropy. One useful way of measuring entropy is by the following equation: where S represents entropy, DS represents the change in entropy, q represents heat transfer, and T is the temperature. Using this equation it is possible to measure entropy changes using a calorimeter.