The ideal law of mass action and first-order phase transition
- 21 August 1983
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 16 (12) , L435-L437
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/16/12/008
Abstract
The author shows that the ideal law of mass action for a chemical reaction mu A from or to Amu predicts a first-order phase transition if one allows mu to become large.Keywords
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