Investigating the behavior of melting line and the properties of the coexisting crystal and liquid phase of simple substances across a range of pressures, the authors examine phase transitions using the novel approach of thermodynamic similarity. They also derive relations for the thermodynamic similarity for liquid-vapour phase transition.

Professor Skripov obtained worldwide recognition with his monograph "Metastable liquids", published in English by Wiley and Sons. Based upon this work and another monograph published only in Russia, this book investigates the behavior of melting line and the properties of the coexisting crystal and liquid phase of simple substances across a wide range of pressures, including metastable states of the coexisting phases. The authors derive new relations for the thermodynamic similarity for liquid-vapour phase transition, as well as describing solid-liquid, liquid-vapor and liquid-liquid phase transitions for binary systems employing the novel methodology of thermodynamic similarity.

Foreword.1 Introduction.1.1 Basic Aims and Methods.1.2 States of Aggregation. Phase Diagrams and the Clausius-Clapeyron Equation.1.3 Metastable States. Relaxation via Nucleation.1.4 Phase Transformations in a Metastable Phase. Homogeneous Nucleation.2 Liquid-Gas Phase Transitions.2.1 BasicFact: ExistenceofaCriticalPoint.2.2 Method of Thermodynamic Similarity.2.3 Similarity Near the Critical Point: The Change of Critical Indices.2.4 New Universal Relationships for Liquid-Vapor Phase Coexistence in One-Component Systems.2.4.1 Correlation Between Pressure and Densities of Liquid and Vapor Along the Saturation Curve.2.4.2 Correlation Between Caloric Properties and Densities of Liquid and VaporAlongtheSaturationCurve.2.4.3 Correlation Between Surface Tension and Heat of Evaporation of Nonassociated Liquids.2.4.4 One-Parameter Correlation for the Heat of Evaporation of NonassociatedLiquids.3 Crystal-Liquid Phase Transitions.3.1 The Behavior of the Crystal-Liquid Equilibrium Curve at High Pressures.3.2 Experimental Methods of Investigation of Melting of Substances at High Pressure.3.3 Application of Similarity Methods for a Description of Melting.3.4 The Extension of the Melting Curve into the Range of Negative Pressures and the Scaling of Thermodynamic Parameters.3.5 Internal Pressure in a Liquid Along the Equilibrium Curves with Crystal and Vapor.3.6 Stability of Thermodynamic States and the Metastable Continuation of the Melting Curves.3.7 The Behavior of the Viscosity of a Liquid Along the Coexistence Curve with the Crystalline Phase.3.8 The Behavior of Volume and Entropy Jumps Along the Melting Curve.3.9 The Surface Tension of Simple Liquids Along the Melting Curve.3.10 Correlations Between Thermodynamic Properties Characterizing Melting.3.11 Melting and Crystallization of Small Particles.3.11.1 Thermodynamic Aspects.3.11.2 KineticAspects.4 Phase Transitions in Solutions.4.1 Generalized Clausius-Clapeyron Equation for Solutions.4.2 Application of the Generalized Clausius-Clapeyron Equation for the Plot of thePhaseDiagrams.4.3 Thermodynamic Correlations for Phase-Separating Solutions.4.4 Experimental Studies of Phase-Separating Solutions.4.5 Thermodynamic Similarity of Phase-Separating Binary Solutions with Upper Critical Dissolution Temperature.4.6 Thermodynamic Similarity of Phase-Separating Binary Solutions with Lower Critical Dissolution Temperature.4.7 Concluding Remarks.A Appendices.A.1 List of Symbols.A.2 SuperscriptsandSubscripts.References.Index.