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Obtaining inferences about relative stability and metastable phase sequences from phase diagrams

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Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams

An Erratum to this article was published on 01 September 1981

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Phase diagrams that include metastable equilibria can be constructed from empirical observations on metastable phases and extrapolations of data from stable phases. Such diagrams contain useful hierarchical information about metastable phase equilibrium sequences.

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02881466.

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Cahn, J.W. Obtaining inferences about relative stability and metastable phase sequences from phase diagrams. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 1, 27–32 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02881174

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