State functions play important roles in thermodynamics. Different from the process function, such as the exchanged heat and the applied work , the change of the state function can be expressed as an exact differential. We prove here that, for a generic thermodynamic system, only the inverse of the temperature, namely , can serve as the integration factor for the exchanged heat . The uniqueness of the integration factor invalidates any attempt to define other state functions associated with the exchanged heat, and in turn, reveals the incorrectness of defining the entransy as a state function by treating as an integration factor. We further show the errors in the derivation of entransy by treating the heat capacity as a temperature-independent constant.

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