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Detailed information about phase diagrams of mixtures can be found in M. Hansen, Constitution of Binary Alloys, McGraw Hill, 1983 und its supplements. Further detailed discussions of the shape of phase diagrams are to be found in L. D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics, Vol. V, Statistical Physics, Pergamon Press 1980.
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Schwabl, F. (2006). Thermodynamics. In: Statistical Mechanics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36217-7_3
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