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phase diagram

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noun

Chemistry.
  1. a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.


Etymology

Origin of phase diagram

First recorded in 1910–15


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"Just as temperature and density define the phase diagram of matter, acceleration may open a new axis of that diagram," stated Professor Huang.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

But this work shows that the phase diagram can also encode 'thinking' in addition to 'doing,' when scaled up to complex systems with many different kinds of components.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024

The work points at a new view of computation that does not involve designing circuits, but rather designing what physicists call a phase diagram.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024

A phase diagram combines plots of pressure versus temperature for the liquid-gas, solid-liquid, and solid-gas phase-transition equilibria of a substance.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

These are described as a line on a phase diagram.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

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