phase diagram

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of phase diagram¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

Under mid-infrared illumination, this material transforms into a state of permanently ordered electrical dipoles, which is absent in its equilibrium phase diagram.

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Despite their potential, however, the magnetic phase diagram of these materials remains largely unexplored.

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

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For example, for water, a phase diagram might describe the temperature and pressure conditions in which liquid water will freeze or boil, which are 'muscle'-like material properties.

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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.

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