Can phase diagrams be constructed from cooling curves?

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Feb 3, 2016

Yes

Explanation:

But you need a lot of them, at different pressures. From each cooling curve, you can identify the boiling/melting point from the plateau region, at that specific pressure.

A phase diagram needs information about a substance's physical state at a given temperature and pressure. It is the boundaries between the states that is important when constructing the phase diagram.

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