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Potential energy in various forms is the product of a conserved extensive quantity (for example, mass or electric charge) and an intensive quantity which is its potential (for example, gravitational potential or electrical voltage), while energy in specific form is a dissipative quantity during irreversible transfer process (for example mechanical or electrical energy will be dissipated as thermal energy). However, it has been shown that heat or thermal energy, like mass or electric charge, is conserved during heat transfer processes. When a heat transfer process is for object heating or cooling, the potential of internal energy U is the temperature T and its potential \u201cenergy\u201d is UT\/2 (called entransy and it is the simplified expression of thermomass potential energy); when a heat transfer process is for heat-work conversion, the potential of internal energy U is (1 \u2212 T0\/T), and the available potential energy of a system in reversible heat interaction with the environment is U \u2212 U0 \u2212 T0(S \u2212 S0), then T0\/T and T0(S \u2212 S0) are the unavailable potential and the unavailable potential energy of a system respectively. Hence, entropy is related to the unavailable potential energy per unit environmental temperature for heat-work conversion during reversible heat interaction between the system and its environment. Entropy transfer, like other forms of potential energy transfer, is the product of the heat and its potential, the reciprocal of temperature, although it is in form of the quotient of the heat and the temperature. Thus, the physical essence of entropy transfer is the unavailable potential energy transfer per unit environmental temperature. 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