Melting point, single phase

In the case on the left, a composition exists which in which a minimum melting point exists. Again, A and B form a which partially melts to form a + L. However, two forms of a edso exist, a compositional area known as a "miscibility gap", i.e.- " ai and aa". But at higher temperatures, both of these melt into the single phase, a. Finally, we obtain the melt plus a. Note that at about 80% ttj-20% Uj, a melting point minimum is seen where it melts directly instead of forming the two-phase system, a -i- L. 

Clathrate formation is very attractive for exploitation in solid-state chemistry. It allows one to modify in a simple way the environment of the guest molecule, to place this molecule in a crystalline phase with a structure different from its own (one structure may be chiral, and the other not), and even to achieve a stable crystalline structure at a temperature above the melting point of the pure guest. Some of the variety available for a single compound, acetic acid, is... 

A sublimation process is controlled primarily by the conditions under which phase equilibria occur in a single-component system, and the phase diagram of a simple one-component system is shown in Figure 15.30 where the sublimation curve is dependent on the vapour pressure of the solid, the vaporisation curve on the vapour pressure of the liquid, and the fusion curve on the effect of pressure on the melting point. The slopes of these three curves can be expressed quantitatively by the Clapeyron equation ... 

Figure 1. Cerium-iron phase diagram showing complete solubility in the liquid phase, zero solubility in the solid phases and one, single, low-melting point eutectic 92.5% Ce.

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