There are two classes of phase transitions : first-order transitions and continuous transitions.
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Interestingly, experimental evidence indicates that this phase forms by a " first-order transition ".
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Spacelab Glovebox Facility experiments included the Zeolite Crystal Growth Glovebox, Protein Crystal Growth Glovebox and the Colloidal Disorder-Order Transitions,
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They are significant in most of the complexes, and large movements or disorder-to-order transitions are frequently observed.
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The chiral pitch of a cholesteric phase tends to unwind with increasing temperature, with a disorder-order transition to the higher symmetry nematic phase at the high end.
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In such a case, the transition is termed " electric dipole forbidden ", and the transitions between such levels must be approximated by " higher-order transitions ".
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Imry and Wortis showed that quenched disorder can broaden a first-order transition in that the transformation is completed over a finite range of temperatures, but phenomena like supercooling and superheating survive and hysteresis is observed on thermal cycling.
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Subsequent QMC calculations have refined their phase diagram : there is a second-order transition from a paramagnetic fluid state to a partially spin-polarized fluid from r _ s = 50 ( 2 ) to about 100; and Wigner crystallization occurs at r _ s = 106 ( 1 ).
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The various solid / liquid / gas transitions are classified as first-order transitions because they involve a discontinuous change in density, which is the ( inverse of the ) first derivative of the free energy with respect to pressure . " Second-order phase transitions " are continuous in the first derivative ( the order parameter, which is the first derivative of the free energy with respect to the external field, is continuous across the transition ) but exhibit discontinuity in a second derivative of the free energy.
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