Can there be a second kind of entropy catastrophe in the melting of metastable solids?

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3270-3274

  Ramachandrarao, P ^a   Srikanth, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; ENTROPY; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; HEATING; MELTING; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

METASTABLE SOLIDS; SUPERHEATING; THERMOELASTIC INSTABILITIES;

ALLOYS;

EID: 0032205853     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.1998.0444     Document Type: Article

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