Equilibrium Between Phases of Matter

The second Volume, having, more than the first, a postgraduate and professional character, amounts to an extension of subjects, and a deepening of understanding. The theory is extended to deal with retrograde phenomena; phase behaviour in ternary- and higher-order systems; and phase behaviour under conditions of high temperature and high pressure. §A profound treatment is given of the computational prediction of phase behaviour - and the thermophysical properties of the materials involved - for conditions of high temperature and high pressure which is of special relevance for earth- and planetary geophysics. The work ends with a reflection on phase-equilibrium analysis for the future: the need for the inclusion of statistical thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. §Volume II is a lecture book for postgraduate students in chemistry, chemical engineering, geology and metallurgy; it is highly useful as a recommended text in the same fields, and, in addition, physics and geophysics; it is indispensable as a frame of reference for researchers in all fields of materials science, and, in particular, for the users of software packages like FactSage, Thermo-Calc, and Pandat.