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Anharmonicity
Arrhenius equation
Author_Pablo G. Debenedetti
Binodal
Boiling
Boltzmann's entropy formula
Bulk temperature
Calculation
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Chemical potential
Classical nucleation theory
Clausius-Clapeyron relation
Compressibility
Critical mass
Cryogenics
Crystallization
Curie temperature
Density functional theory
Drop (liquid)
Emulsion
Enthalpy
Enthalpy of fusion
Enthalpy of vaporization
Entropy
Entropy of fusion
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Equation of state
Equation of state (cosmology)
Fragility
Freezing
Gibbs free energy
Glass transition
Heat capacity
Hydrate
Ideal gas
Impurity
Kinetic theory of gases
Langevin equation
Length scale
Mass diffusivity
Maxwell construction
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
Melting point
Metastability
Microscopic reversibility
Mixture
Molecule
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Nucleation
Partition function (statistical mechanics)
Phase diagram
Phase rule
Phase transition
Pre-exponential factor
Spinodal
Spinodal decomposition
Structure factor
Sublimation (phase transition)
Supercooling
Superheating
Supersaturation
Temperature
Thermodynamic equilibrium
Thermodynamic free energy
Thermodynamics
Transport coefficient
Triple point
Van der Waals equation
Vapor
Vapor pressure
Vapor-liquid equilibrium
Viscosity
Vitrification
Product details
- ISBN 9780691085951
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Metastable Liquids provides a comprehensive treatment of the properties of liquids under conditions where the stable state is a vapor, a solid, or a liquid mixture of different composition. It examines the fundamental principles that govern the equilibrium properties, stability, relaxation mechanisms, and relaxation rates of metastable liquids. Building on the interplay of kinetics and thermodynamics that determines the thermophysical properties and structural relaxation of metastable liquids, it offers an in-depth treatment of thermodynamic stability theory, the statistical mechanics of metastability, nucleation, spinodal decomposition, supercooled liquids, and the glass transition. Both traditional topics--such as stability theory--and modern developments--including modern theories of nucleation and the properties of supercooled and glassy water--are treated in detail. An introductory chapter illustrates, with numerous examples, the importance and ubiquity of metastable liquids.
Examples include the ascent of sap in plants, the strategies adopted by many living organisms to survive prolonged exposure to sub-freezing conditions, the behavior of proteins at low temperatures, metastability in mineral inclusions, ozone depletion, the preservation and storage of labile biochemicals, and the prevention of natural gas clathrate hydrate formation. All mathematical symbols are defined in the text and key equations are clearly explained. More complex mathematical explanations are available in the appendixes.
Pablo G. Debenedetti is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University.
