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This lecture covers the concepts of chemical equilibrium and matter transfer in two simple subsystems separated by a diathermic, immobile, and permeable wall. It discusses the laws of Fick, discrete and continuous formulations, and the thermodynamic principles governing the systems' energy and entropy. The lecture also explores the extensivity of entropy and the number of moles, partial derivatives of entropy, and the conditions for chemical equilibrium and irreversible processes in matter transfer.