Carnot's rule
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Carnot's rule, named after French physicist Sadi Carnot, is an early formulation of the second law of thermodynamics.
It sets essential limitations on the yield of a cyclic heat engine such as steam engines or internal combustion engines: they can extract only a certain proportion of mechanical energy from the heat of the working fluid; this maximal amount is realized by the ideal Carnot heat engine.
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