phase transition


in: a substance

is: a change in bulk properties which, for pure substances, is often found to occur within a vanishingly small range of temperature.   [P7.4]

is exemplified: by the melting of a solid to form a liquid.   [P7.1, P7.4]

is also exemplified: by changes in the crystalline structure of solids.   [P7.4]

is accompanied: in some phase transitions, including the solid-liquid-vapour ones, by latent heats (but this is not true of all phase transitions).   [P7.4]

See fusion, sublimation, vaporization.


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