The true statement amongst the following is:

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Strategy:
 Absolute entropy () and the change in entropy () both reflect the statistical distribution of microstates, which varies with thermal energy (temperature).

Step 1: Analyze temperature dependency
- Absolute Entropy (): Heat capacity measurements () show that  always varies with .
- Entropy change (): Since absolute entropies of reactants and products change with , their difference also usually changes with  (linked to  via Kirchhoff-like relations).

Both are functions of temperature.

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