The molar entropy, S, and enthalpy (energy), H, of crystals, glasses and melts of the same one-component systems have been suitably visualised including the transformation from the melt into a glass or crystallisation. For the temperature T>OK the enthalpy and entropy of the glass are larger as compared to the stable crystal. The S and H functions of glasses correspond to a simple continuation of these functions from the molten state to lower temperatures. Crystallisation occurs as a spontaneous process under production of entropy. Extrapolating the entropy of the molten and crystalline sates from the melting range to lower temperatures, which is the basic of "Kauzmann's paradox", is ambiguous and misleading, as the extrapolated data deviate considerably from the experimental temperature dependencies of S of glasses and crystals.
