As specialists with global standing, Skripov and Faizullin (both (physics, Russian Academy of Sciences) have a outstanding knowledge of the experimental and theoretical analysis of first-order phase transitions, and this is the first complete review of the research of both on the comparative analysis of solid-liquid and liquid-vapor phase transitions, their similarities and differences with special emphasis on the aspects of thermodynamic similarity. In a series of concise narratives they cover liquid-base phase transitions, crystal-liquid phase transitions, and base transitions in solutions. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Professor Skripov obtained worldwide recognition with his monograph "Metastable liquids", published in English by Wiley & 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.
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