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Phase Transitions: van der Waals to Lenz

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The present section is meant to serve as a global orientation through Chaps. 11 to 14, all four of them being devoted to the modeling of phase transitions.

Who begot the drops of dew? From whose womb did the ice come forth? Who gave birth to the frost that cleaves the stones as the abyss congeals?

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Emch, G.G., Liu, C. (2002). Phase Transitions: van der Waals to Lenz. In: The Logic of Thermostatistical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04886-3_11

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