Phase Diagram

A phase diagram in physical chemistry, engineering, mineralogy, and materials science is a type of chart used to show conditions at which thermodynamically distinct phases can occur at equilibrium. In mathematics and physics, "phase diagram" is used with a different meaning: a synonym for a phase space.

Read more about Phase Diagram:  Overview

Famous quotes containing the words phase and/or diagram:

    “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    ““God’s fire upon the wane,
    A diagram hung there instead,
    More women born than men.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)