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As part of an attempt to systematize the knowledge of factors which influence the form of binary equilibrium diagrams, we have examined the available data on binary systems in Which no intermediate compounds are formed. This corresponds to a state of affairs where the electrochemical effect1 is small, and if those systems characterized by a 100 per cent range of solid solubility are ignored, the systems considered fall into two distinct classes ; namely, those in which a region of liquid immiscibility is encountered (Fig. 1), of which aluminium-potassium is an example, and those which are characterized by the existence of a eutectic (Fig. 2), of which bismuth–cadmium is an example.
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AXON, H. Systematization of Certain Binary Metallic Equilibrium Diagrams. Nature 162, 997 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162997a0
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