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The meaning of the terms “phase” and “phase transition”

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Various meanings of the terms “phase” and “phase transition” encountered in scientific literature are discussed. These terms supplement each other and cover only together all the macroscopic situations which are now denoted by this term.

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  1. V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute, Tomsk State University, USSR

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 67–71, August, 1988.

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Paskal', Y.I. The meaning of the terms “phase” and “phase transition”. Soviet Physics Journal 31, 664–666 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01102546

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