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Fluctuations are random and therefore unpredictable, except in the mean, or on average. They are due to the irregular thermal motion of the atoms. An instructive example - and the first one to be described analytically - is the Brownian motion of nearly macroscopic particles suspended in a solution. The velocity of such a particle fluctuates around zero in an apparently irregular manner.
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Müller, I. (2007). Fluctuations. In: A History of Thermodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46227-9_9
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