Description of Regions in Two-Component Phase Diagrams

Robert M. Rosenberg
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3113
J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76 (2), p 223
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p223
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 1999

Abstract

This paper is concerned with helping students in an undergraduate physical chemistry course to interpret various geometric regions in reduced two-component phase diagrams in which either temperature or pressure is constant. This aim is accomplished by correlating the dimensionality of a geometric region with the degrees of freedom of the system obtained from the phase rule.

Keywords (Audience):

Upper-Division Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Physical Chemistry

Keywords (Subject):

Equilibrium

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