This is expected since the air and surface waters approach thermal equilibrium.

These bodies are said to be in thermal equilibrium.

After a certain point you cannot bond and during this time your thermal equilibrium is reached.

The temperature T arises from the fact that the system is in thermal equilibrium with its environment.

This is not true, as the law only applies in thermal equilibrium.

One sense is that of thermal equilibrium within a system for itself.

While the transfer of energy as heat continues, the system is not in thermal equilibrium.

At that point the net flow of energy is zero, and the systems are said to be in thermal equilibrium.

But, as Albert might have said, thermal equilibrium was maintained.

Thus, on a very practical basis, there is no way to keep the two gas samples from thermal equilibrium.

An isolated system is in thermodynamic equilibrium when its state does not change with time.

For a completely isolated system, S is maximum at thermodynamic equilibrium.

It is useful to distinguish between global and local thermodynamic equilibrium.

If the flows stop, the system is dead (in thermodynamic equilibrium).

That property of systems which determines whether they are in thermodynamic equilibrium.

For example, local thermodynamic equilibrium in a liquid is reached within a few collision times.

At thermodynamic equilibrium, are all statistically independent of each other.

There is an important distinction between thermal and thermodynamic equilibrium.

Therefore, the universe is not in thermodynamic equilibrium and objects can do physical work.

Such a composite system is in a homogeneous thermodynamic equilibrium.