Rosa pours a cup of boiling water into a pot of room-temperature water. According to the second law of thermodynamics, what will occur?

Heat flows spontaneously from the hotter boiling water to the cooler room-temperature water. The transfer continues until the water reaches thermal equilibrium, meaning all of it is at a single temperature. It does not continue indefinitely, so the choice saying the flow is continuous is incorrect.

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