We investigate the characteristics of a perpetual motion machine whose operation depends on a violation of the zeroth law of thermodynamics. It is found that it operates by creating work, but is necessarily a composite of at least two systems in contrast to a machine of the first kind.
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Laws of thermodynamics
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1971
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