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THE application of the phase rule to metallic systems sometimes presents difficulties, which, however, would be avoided if the principles laid down by Gibbs were strictly adhered to. A lax interpretation has become common, and it has been thought advisable to include, in a series of books devoted to the technical properties of the alloys of iron, an account of the principles on which phase diagrams are constructed and interpreted. The author has followed Gibbs throughout, and has kept to a strictly thermo-dynamical treatment, ignoring all questions of atomic arrangement.
Principles of Phase Diagrams
By J. S. Marsh. (Alloys of Iron Research, Monograph Series.) (Published for the Engineering Foundation.) Pp. xv + 193. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1935.) 18s. net.
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Technology. Nature 136, 598 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136598b0
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