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President Hamid Karzai is in London in order to review with Prime Minister Gordon Brown the progress being made in secret talks with members of the Taliban. Saudi Arabia King Abdullah has sponsored the discussions in an effort to end chaos which now reigns in Afghanistan. There are also reports Pakistan Prime Minister Zardari has played a role in trying to bring together the Taliban and more secular groups in Afghanistan. Karzai has held talks with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former mujahedin leader who once was supported by American intelligence when he was fighting against the Russians. After his fall out with Americans, Hekmatyar went to Iran where he has been directing attacks on US and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Another effort to achieve peace is being made by Pakistani tribal elders who recently held a two day assembly in order to organize a group to meet with Taliban leaders. There is almost something comic about these meetings and changes. Seven years ago, Donald Rumsfeld announced to the world, the US had defeated the Taliban and they never would return. Today, the same people who were defeated are back in the saddle.
The unanswered question remains– will a compromise with the Taliban restore their fundamentalist anti-Western ideas to Afghanistan?

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Installing 32 bit printer driver on Windows200864 server
Tried to install a 32 bit driver for the Dell 2330dn printer but the software kept asking me "please provide path to windows media (x86 processor)'". Pointing the dialog box to the x86 directory or the i386 directory that came with the print driver didn't help. Neither did pointing the dialog to a copy of the i386 directory from an xp cd. A reply posting on Microsoft's technet site gave me a hint to get this working. By first installing and sharing the 64bit driver, it is then possible to install the printer by using the following steps.
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Of Time ‐ Place ‐ History ‐ Geography ‐ Geology ‐ Life ‐ Links ‐ Web Community ‐ Commerce … and Art So. Eastern Arnhem Land. I carried on zooming over the map, compelled to explore deeper. Flying as the girl in my childhood dreams, above the red earth tracks and trails, ridges and bluffs, inlets and promontories of this ancient land. And then a few miles to the west of Nhulunbuy, among the eucalypt woodlands, vibrant patches of a different colour became visible. Closer in to a dramatic striped patchwork of strong orange red and pink. Strange and possibly beautiful from the air but clearly not the natural landscape.
Agriculture? . . . Mining? The brain flips backwards and remembers A level geography lessons with Miss Povah, my badly drawn outline of Australia and a simple dot at the top end of the map labeled bauxite. And now in front of me here, nearly forty years later, could this be the startlingly harsh impact of that crumb of knowledge? The hidden price we pay for our aluminum foil? So, I google bauxite and sure enough find that the sedimentary rocks laid down 1500 million years ago are perfect for the formation of laterite "a reddish clayey material… forming a top soil in some tropical or sub-tropical regions." and… "rich in iron and aluminum oxides." And, because the ore is found close to the surface, the resulting bauxite is strip-mined in open pits. And that one of the processes of the alumina refining "involves separation of ferruginous residue (red mud) by filtering". All I think visible in the above images. I read that Australia is the top producer of bauxite in the world and this Rio Tinto Alcan mine the third largest in the country (annual production valued at AUD£605 million!) with at least thirty years of reserves. I learn that Nhulunbuy was built in the early1970's to service the bauxite mine. And I learn the whole region has been ancestral home to the indigenous Yolngu Aboriginal people for at least 40,000 years.
Further aerial searches reveal many more blocks of virgin bush mapped out in strip configuration (above), branding this land of wandering tracks and pristine white beaches and surrounding Yirrkala which has been home to an indigenous community throughout recorded history. Are these areas destined for future workings I wonder? I start to feel uneasy. Northeastern Arnhem Land is most noted for its remoteness, as an area of unspoiled wilderness and the enduring traditions of its indigenous inhabitants. Here, the profound interconnectedness of culture, clans, knowledge, law and land is passed to future generations through song/ dance/ art and ritual; firmly binding the ancient and the living, the past and the present and all life. So it is not surprising that in the early 60's the indigenous population were strongly opposed to the Federal Government's decision to excise significant areas of their ancestral land for bauxite mining. At a time when the world was waking up to and respecting Aboriginal art traditions, they used their visual art as a political tool – eventually to great effect. I have been reading about the Yirrkala Bark Petitions which were sent to the House of Representatives in 1963 to protest against the granting of Nabalco's mining authorisation in the area. They both visually and textually assert the Yolngu people's connection and rights to their land and now hang in Parliament House in Canberra; a striking testament to this period in Australian history.
And I learn that in 1968, when the government had still not changed their position, the Yolngu made a direct challenge to the mining company in a famous legal case: Milirrpum v Nabalco. Although that too failed because the authorities still refuted any ownership of land prior to white settlement, it inspired national protest resulting in wider awareness of the claims of Yolngu and indigenous people throughout Australia. It 'opened the way to the passage of the Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) in 1976, the beginnings of legal recognition of Aboriginal title to land and the eventual voiding of the doctrine of terra nullius.' I was nine in 1963 and graduated in 1976, an English girl and young woman on the other side of the world slowly awakening to world issues. Now in 2009, through participation in the World Beach Project and hours of fascinating research, I feel strongly drawn to a culture where there is a constant interplay between art and land coupled with a powerful link to the past. Through the journey of research I have come upon many fascinating sites, some of which I'd like to share with you here. Yirrkala is the vibrant hub of the area's rich creativity and the Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre is at the heart of it, displaying a vast range of work including Nuwayak (painting on bark), Larrakitj (memorial poles) and a print work shop: the Yirrkala Print Space. These two sites are part of the same whole. As with all the websites I mention here, it's worth checking out all the sections and their relevant subsections to see the depth and richness of the various projects. Through this site also, I came upon The Mulka Project which 'provides meaningful employment and empowerment to the Yirrkala community by allowing Yolngu Aboriginal People to take control of documents of their culture in modern digital media'. It contains more extremely interesting short videos, many of which are featured on their own channel on YouTube. The mission statement: " We want to bring knowledge of the past into the present, to preserve it for future generations and to understand what meaning it has in the present day and age." It could have been written for the V&A. And here an absorbing site about The Yolngu and the making of three films documenting ceremony and ritual across forty years.
Left: Yidaki. (Image courtesy the 'Artistic Yidaki Gallery' form the Buku- Larrngay Mulka Centre website). Right: Handwoven Nyalka of pandanus grass by Caroline Gulumindiwuy, Northeastern Arnhem Land. The Yidaki (didjeridu) originated in Arnhem Land and Yidakiwuy Dhawu Miwatjnurunydja is a very good site covering everything you might ever want to know about this instrument. From that site there is a link to Useful Websites Owned By or Made in Collaboration with Yolngu The list includes environmental, political, education and creative issues. From here I found the very interesting Arnhem Weavers containing a number of fascinating short Quick time movies. And to prove that World Beach is so not new… I also discovered two images of stone arrangements found near Yirrkala and constructed over 100 years ago. The stones describe the shape of a Macassan fishing boat and were constructed by Yolngu elders to educate future generations about the history of the Macassan traders who visited this coastline from Indonesia over several centuries.
(Left hand image photo credit: Ray Norris) Stunning technology allows us to celebrate the uniqueness of our human handmark across generations and across the planet; to connect to the individual. It also causes us to become witness to our own human impact on the earth. I grew up in the coal mining environment of Northeast Derbyshire. Huge black slagheaps were strung across the landscape. I never saw it from the air, I imagine it would have looked pretty ugly. The pits are now long gone and the air is cleaner. Parks and paths and fields and trees green the land. The scars are evident but much healed. I do wonder if the bauxite scars of Northeastern Arnhem Land will be healed with an active programme of environmental regeneration at some point in the future and that the Yolngu will be able to walk freely across their lands once more?


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Talk:Phase (matter)
|Phase (matter) has been listed as a level-4 vital article in Science. If you can improve it, please do. This article has been rated as B-Class.
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- 1 Example
- 2 Photos?
- 3 Bose-Einstein concentrate
- 4 Added "copypaste" template
- 5 Title is misleading
- 6 State of matter disambiguated
- 7 Question
- 8 Second order phase transitions
- 9 Temperature distribution of phases of the elements
- 10 General question about phases of matter
- 11 Fall 2008 re-write
- 12 IUPAC Gold Book
- 13 if water will notfunction as the solvent
- 14 Phase transitions
- 15 State Of Matter
- 16 500+ phases
- 17 List of phases?
- 18 History
I think that a water ballon is not a good example of the 'incompressibility' of water. Water balloons squish around in your hand and it is hard to tell whether the volume has changed. ike9898 13:33, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
- When I think about it, I imagine a "corked" pump (such as one used to fill a bicycle tire or even a hyperdermic needle) filled with water as opposed to air. I even think a plastic zip-top bag filled with water is a better example than the balloon, but I can understand how a water balloon can create better imagery. The_Irrelevant_One 19:03, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Can we think of a good photo to add to the top of the article? (It's just for appearance). RJFJR 15:47, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Following the request of PhotoCatBot to check if a photo is still needed, I have now added a nice photo of an argon crystal simultaneously melting and evaporating. Dirac66 (talk) 00:24, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
- Today 188.8.131.52 added the note "at 273K temperature" to the caption of this photo. However from the descriptions of this photo by the photographer (User:Deglr6328) at File:Argon ice 1.jpg#Summary and at greater length at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Argon ice, it is clear that the temperature was not controlled or measured while the photo was taken. The sample was in the process of warming rapidly from liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K), and no specific value of the temperature at the moment of the photo is claimed. So I will now delete the note about the temperature. Dirac66 (talk) 03:29, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
The melting argon ice photo is striking, but a bit hard to understand, which might be fixed by a more thorough explanation in the caption, or a different picture. I couldn't see any solid-liquid interface in the picture, so at first I thought there was only liquid argon, wetting the inside of the glass tube and dripping out, and then evaporating. The presence of both liquid and vapor is evident, due to the falling liquid drops and the fog formed when the cold, transparent argon gas phase mixes with the surrounding humid air, but unfortunately the fog isn't itself a phase, but rather a two-phase region. This could all be explained, but maybe a cleaner approach to showing three coexisting phases would be a picture of a lump of solid bromine, melting to form a puddle of liquid bromine, with a visible cloud of red bromine gas above. The bromine article has a nice picture of a bottle of bromine showing coexisting liquid and gaseous phases, so anyone who has such a bottle shouldn't have much trouble making one with all 3 phases showing. Put the bottle on a slant in a freezer at -10C, then take it out and let the frozen bromine partly melt, meanwhile forming some bromine gas. The liquid and solid bromine would be both opaque brown but could be distinguished by the solid part still being on a slant while the liquid part was level.CharlesHBennett (talk) 14:02, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
- In the argon photo, I think the white streaks near the centre of the test tube are the solid, and the clear areas surrounding are the liquid. Dirac66 (talk) 18:52, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Bose-Einstein concentrate[edit]
shouldent it be added, it is a distinct type of matter
- Bose-Einstein condensate is already there, with a link to its own page.
Added "copypaste" template[edit]
I'm surprised this article earned a B-class assessment. Several sections use the first person and tone that strongly resembles a science textbook, leading me to believe the text has been copied from some (uncited) educational material. Some examples:
- Under General definition of phases: "When discussing the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases, we talked about rigidity and compressibility, and the effects..." and "On the other hand, when discussing paramagnetism and ferromagnetism, we looked at..." What previous discussion can these refer to, other than preceding chapters of a larger work?
- Under Other examples of phases: "In this section, we will present several systems that exhibit phase phenomena" is entirely unnecessary and resembles the preamble to a textbook section or subsection.
- The word "we" appears at least 11 times.
I have declined to do the extensive editing required to transform this textbook chapter into proper Wikipedia article. If the source can be identified and is in the public domain, then such editing can take place; otherwise the article should be substantially rewritten. The current text is unacceptable for an article identified as a 1.0 Core Topic. -- PaulKishimoto 20:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- I've identified the origin: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phase_%28matter%29&diff=18722376&oldid=18528013 184.108.40.206 05:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
- The text is here also but if that is the original it was already pasted into this article in 2003:
The last version before the paste:
I suggest that we trim down the article with respect to the pasted-in material and then reevaluate the 2003 material
V8rik 17:20, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hmm, it looks like even that image has a questionable copyright, as it was created from an image which was recreated due to a copyright problem. As to the text, I'm going to remove all of it that seems to be in violation. The original adder is evidently no longer active here. 184.108.40.206 11:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
- I have made my edits here and welcome other review of them. I suspect the last two are rewritten from the original copyright problem, but not completely free of taint, both of copyright violation and of the original out-of-place feel of the source. 184.108.40.206 12:05, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Title is misleading[edit]
Here and in the 'list of Phases of matter' article there is confusion between the usage of 'phase' to denote the difference of liquid vs. solid as opposed to the the difference between diamond and graphite. The liquid vs. solid distinction is properly a difference in 'state of matter' -- yes they are necessarily different phases, too. However, in the diamond vs. graphite case, both ate the same state of matter (solid) but different phases.
There is much in the first two paragraphs which do not belong in an article on phases, but which should instead be part of an article on 'states of matter'. Although there may be some contexts where 'phase' and 'state of matter' may be used interchangeably, it only adds to the confusion here.
I propose that the solid/liquid/gas/Bose-Einstein condensate part of this article be removed to another article dealing with states of matter, and this article focus on the other meaning (diamond vs. graphite, fcc-iron vs. bcc-iron, liquid miscibility issues like oil/water, etc.) Olof
- Confusion, or a difference in terminology? I understand "states of matter" to be a lay term referring to the three principal STP phases (solid, liquid, gas). I agree that there could be improvement, but splitting up the article is unlikely to help. Also, allotropy has its own article already. Do you have a citation for your usage of the terms? –EdC 13:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
- For example, the discussion in Gibbs' phase rule uses the sense of 'phase' I propose above, and is in contradiction to the use of 'state'. Same for phase diagram - the use of 'phase' there matches my definition.
- By contrast, the P.W. Atkins textbook 'Physical Chemistry' (third edition, 1986) includes this quote on page 10: "Casual inspection of the familiar world reveals the existence of three states of matter: solids, liquids and gases. Closer inspection shows that some materials existin different crystal forms (e.g. carbon can exist as diamond or graphite). These varieties of matter are called its 'phases' ... in rare instances, even the liquid state of a material may occur in different phases with sharply distinct properties" -Olof
- OK, but how are you going to explain phases without reference to the most obvious phase boundaries? Also, what could be the content of an article on "state of matter"? To provide explanations of the solid, liquid and gas phases it would have to repeatedly refer back to this article, or duplicate lots of material. I don't see we need anything more than a paragraph at most explaining when and why the solid/liquid/gas phases are referred to as states, and what the relevant physical quantities are (and possibly how they change at phase boundaries). –EdC 04:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- I disagree completely. An article on states of matter need not make excess reference to the concept of phase. Making the point that the different states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) can be differentiated based on physical properties seems pretty easy. Indeed, an article about the states of matter had better be concerned with those differences. If anything, such an article would make excessive reference to the articles on gas, liquid and solid. And it would make sense for those articles to point to an article on states of matter, not phases.
- On the other hand, an article about phases can provide examples where phases can be differentiated even though the state of matter is the same (oil and water, diamond and graphite, austenite and ferrite, the various iron oxides, the two phases of liquid He, order-disorder transitions, the superconducting transition, spinodal decomposition, crystallization in glasses, phases in 2D surface reconstructions and on and on. And it makes sense for the articles on the phase rule and phase diagrams to point to an article on phases rather than an article on states of matter. The phase rule does not apply to the number of states in a system, it applies to the number of phases. -- Olof
- Yes, but what are those differences? This is physics, not taxonomy. –EdC 13:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
i think yea i one reading this is gay hahah!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 02:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
State of matter disambiguated[edit]
So I've gone and done the disambiguation between state of matter and phase. I believe a number of other articles now are more coherent, and a number of links make more sense.. However, there are plenty of loose ends to do -- and I'm not really sure what to do with the states of matter template -- Olof (talk • contribs) 10:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC).
- OK, I'm not too unhappy with what you've done. However, there are some obvious problems:
- "Phases are sometimes confused with states of matter, but there are significant differences. States of matter refers to the differences between gases, liquids and solids, etc."
- This is a content-free sentence. The article needs to explain why and how phases are clustered into states.
- Other issues, but that's all for now. –EdC 13:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Some careful rewriting is certainly necessary, but note that there is a real distinction between a 2-phase system and a 2-state system. For example an oil-water system has 2 phases (for certain compositions) but only one (liquid) state. Dirac66 (talk) 01:42, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
- I think the definitions as they presently appear are wrong. A phase is a region of a system throughout which all properties are uniform. (Ref. Modell & Reid, Thermodynamics and its Applications (1974) - Maybe not the latest, but an esteemed classic.) But naming the phase and identifying its type does not tell you all the properties of matter in that phase (specific heat, density, etc.). For that, you need to specify temperature, pressure, composition, and anything else that is independently required to reproduce whatever state of matter you are taking about. See thermodynamic state. That's why you need to define "state of matter", which is something more and quite different from simply "phase". I do not see any reference on either page that points towards a different usage of the term "state of matter" from the one I propose. If I change the pages to match these definitions, is anyone going to protest?Paul V. Keller (talk) 02:27, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
- Reading some of the talk, it occured to me that the original intent may have been to use the "state of matter" page to talk about organizations of matter in systems that can be multi-phase. For example, perhaps there was some desire to talk about emulsions versus separated liquid phases or suspensions versus solutions. But I do not see any use for such a definition for "state of matter". What would be the gain in talking about suspensions, colloids, and water-ice systems all on the same page? On the other hand, I can see separate pages for phase behavior (the ways in which matter in equilibrium organizes into one or more phases), phase distribution (possibly a subset of the last, but optionally focusing more on how matter distributes in multi-phase systems, interfacial phenomena, emulsions, colloids, suspensions, liquid crystals, saturation, and solutions. (some of these present already, and some not).
- The long and short of it is I cannot think of a situation in which someone would come across the term "state of matter" and want to read about oil-water two-phase systems and solid suspensions on one page. On the other hand, any information about various kinds of phases fits better in the "phase" pagePaul V. Keller (talk) 16:27, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I was reading this article, and found myself amazed with those two sentences which seem contradictory to me :
- "a phase is a set of states"
- "If there are two regions in a chemical system that are in different states of matter, then they must be different phases"
So my question is : How can we have a phase as as set of states when two states have necessarily two different phases ?
Does the first sentence may in fact be "a state is a set of phases" (which is not as correct as "a system can have multiple phases which are in equilibrium with each other and also in the same state of matter" -I think the best "all-in-one" of this article)
Am I missing something or is my comment right ? --JcDenaes
- The issue is the overloading of the word 'state'. 'State of matter' as a set phrase usually refers to that property of a substance which is one of liquid state, solid state, gaseous state, and a few exotic possibilities (plasma, etc.). When we say 'two states have necessarily two different phases', that means if one thing is a liquid and another thing is a solid, they must be different phases.
- You are right to pick on the phrase "a phase is a set of states" as being confusing. It is. Here's an example where you might use it: Some metals go through a phase transition to and from superconductivity at low temperatures -- a transition to the superconducting state. That's a different kind of state from 'state of matter', because such a metal will still be a solid, but in this case, the distinction of superconductor vs. conductor is one of the set of states that distinguish a phase. 'State of matter' is one, 'state of conductivity' is another.
- --Olof
Thank you a lot ! I understand now. --JcDenaes
Second order phase transitions[edit]
There are several misconceptions of phases, and specifically phase transitions in this article. Mostly, it completely ignores second-order phase transitions, in which the free energy function stays differentiable, even at the transition. This also means, that the latent heat (energy related to the change in phase) is zero at the critical value. A perfect example of this is mentioned just above here: the superconducting phase transition. At some critical temperature (or critical magnetic field strength, but this is a bit touchy, as some energy is related to displacing the magnetic field around the superconductor), metallic superconductors become superconducting, which, as mentioned, is a different phase of matter. However, no energy is released in the process, nor is any taken up. This is in clear contradiction to a number of statements in the "General definition..." section. The page on phase transitions has a much clearer description, which should be linked to in stead. 184.108.40.206 (talk) 21:59, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Temperature distribution of phases of the elements[edit]
Do you have any use for this chart? --184.108.40.206 (talk) 21:25, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
General question about phases of matter[edit]
Is it possible for a metal to become gaseous? I was hoping to find a definitive answer here, but this page seems to be much more technical than I was expecting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gforce20 (talk • contribs) 21:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Definitely yes. If any metal is heated to a high enough temperature, it will first melt to become a liquid, and then boil to become a gas. For example, copper has a melting point of 1085"C and a boiling point of 2562°C , so it is a gas at temperatures above 2562°C (at atmospheric pressure). Dirac66 (talk) 22:56, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Fall 2008 re-write[edit]
Further to a discussion above, I undertook a significant rewrite.
The definition of a phase as a "set of states" is now gone. The definition seems to be based on looking at phase diagrams and is not commensurate with the definition in my references, which I know is widely used. The "set of states" definition works poorly when you watch what happens to liquid and gas phases around and "above" the critical point.
I also took out the definition of phase boundaries in terms of the free-energy becoming "non-analytic" That definition seems to derive from experiments where you observe sudden changes in things such as heat capacity as your system moves from a single phase into a two phase region (or back the other way). This type of behavior gets treated in a different guise by the new version. Non-analytic seems to be meant with reference to the phase diagram (derivatives with respect to pressure and temperature), not with respect to space (derivatives with respect to spatial coordinates). Again, the definition based on phase diagrams and phase experiments is certainly not universal. I also wonder whether it is practical outside the study of phase diagrams.
Another problem with the old description and definition is that it was of little or no practical use to anyone who might consult this page. I know I did not understand it the first few time I read it in spite of my have background in this area.
- At the risk of belaboring the point, it occurred to me that a phase diagram-based definition of phases breaks down in the face of super-saturation and bubble nucleation. In both cases, you have a phase that exists outside its bounded domain on the phase diagram. Until you get that first crystal, or that first bubble of adequate size, the expected phase transition does not occur. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pvkeller (talk • contribs) 20:53, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
The description under "phase separation" also received the axe. The removed material referred to a mathematical model of fluid movement in a dynamic process of phase separation. It was not a model describing when phase separations would occur. It was distracting, meaningless, and useless to nearly anyone who might consult this page. Also, the content was only remotely related to the main topic.
I removed material about solubility, which is a different topic.
If you are looking for a description of the exemplary system having eight immiscible liquid phases, check the footnotes. My reason for removing most of that description was that it did not add enough to the discussion to deserve the space it was taking.Paul V. Keller (talk) 17:17, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
I agree that the rewritten article is at a better level for most readers including chemistry students, and that much of the deleted material was overly mathematical for this article.
I think the next step is to add references to appropriate sections of some standard physical chemistry books, for example Atkins and de Paula. Dirac66 (talk) 23:12, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
- Adding references would be great, but I realized there is still work to be done on the content. Is the other, distinct definition of a phase as a "set of states" in use? Is water said to have X distinct solid phases or X distinct crystal states? If the transition from ordinary medal to superconducting metal involves a phase transition, is the superconducting state described as a distinct phase or a distinct state? I would need to research this. I think we will need to revise this page to reference the second definition or modify the state of matter page. I do not like to leave this unresolved, but do not have time to look further into it at the moment.Paul V. Keller (talk) 14:27, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
First, I realized that the reference which you did add (Modell and Reid) did not appear in the article because your rewrite accidentally omitted the ==References== section with the source code which makes references appear. I have now fixed this.
As for distinct phases vs. distinct states: The enumeration of phases is clear because a phase is well defined as a region with uniform properties. So ice I and ice III are two distinct phases because their density is different, as are normal aluminum and superconducting aluminum because their conductivity is different (one finite, one infinite). Counting phases this way is necessary to satisfy the phase rule: ice I and ice III are in equilibrium on a curve (1 degree of freedom) just like ice I and water, so F=C-P+2 requires that P=2.
The word "states" has several different meanings, as we have already discussed at Talk: State of matter#States of matter vs. Thermodynamic state. The "set of states" definition refers to "thermodynamic states", e.g. ice I at -10oC and 1 atm, ice I at -9.9oC and 1 atm, etc. These refer to one and the same phase whose properties vary slowly. If you want to put this definition back in the article, then "thermodynamic states" would be much clearer.
As for different "crystal states" such as ice I and ice III, their enumeration is variable depending on the author and often the context for the same author. Sometimes "state (of matter)" is used as a synonym for "phase", and other times phrases such as "solid state" imply that ice I and ice III are in the same state. Similarly for normal and superconducting phases of a metal. This is a confusing and unfortunate situation, but Wikipedia cannot impose precision upon the scientific world. Best I think to use "phase" (and perhaps "thermodynamic state") in this article, and keep "states of matter" in the other article without a precise enumeration. Dirac66 (talk) 03:32, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
- I think the only correct answer is to report actual usages. What I found is that various researches variously if not interchangeably use different terms to describe waters various crystal types, the terms including crystalline phases, ices types, and ice states. I personally prefer describing them as different states of matter, with the understanding that the states are differentiated in terms of organization of matter. My preferences, however, are not relevant. I think our job is to report on actual usage, although we are free to organize and explain.
- To clarify, neither phase nor thermodynamic state adequately describes regions of the phase diagram. Phase includes non-equilibrium and unstable conditions. For example, super-heated water is a phase of the liquid type. Under the "set of states" definition, it would be identified as part of the gas phase. Thermodynamic states refer to discrete conditions, not ranges of conditions. I propose to add a section to the state of matter page and a cross-reference on the phase page, pointing out how the terms are actually used on both pages.
- Btw, I read the transition to a superconducting state does involve the crossing of a phase boundary.Paul V. Keller (talk) 20:51, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
- I removed material about solubility, which is a different topic. If you are looking for a description of the exemplary system having eight immiscible liquid phases, check the footnotes. My reason for removing most of that description was that it did not add enough to the discussion to deserve the space it was taking. Solubility isn't really a "different topic". Wikipedia isn't a physics textbook, but rather a general reference. When people search for "phases", this is hopefully the first relevant page they'll find. It must be mentioned on this page that certain substances separate into phases, which are mixtures of the compounds. This phenomenon is not off-topic. Also, what kind of phases can form is also helpful. The short summary doesn't have to deleted because there is a general article Solubility, which, at the current state, actually discusses the issue in a rather cursory manner. Furthermore, there are instances where solubility, or the simple description of it, does not correspond to spontaneous phase separation. Aside from these specifics, removing the link to solubility and the advice "check the footnotes" is not acceptable. To answer to the question of the space it takes, it is a technical/copyediting question. --Vuo (talk) 12:45, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
- I'll grant you I took out more than was necessary and that it was not accurate to say solubility is an entirely seperate topic. However, I object to the way you left the content: it introduce solubility without tying the term to the main topic. The discussion of the Hidebrand solubility parameter is out of place, and to say immiscibility shows mutual insolubilty overlooks that there is often a certain amount of component A in the B-rich phase and vice versa. I am making changes accordingly.Paul V. Keller (talk) 20:47, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
IUPAC Gold Book[edit]
(continues previous section: Fall 2008 re-write)
In chemistry the recognized authority for definition of terms is IUPAC, at least for the limited number of terms they consider. The IUPAC Gold Book defines "Phase" as "An entity of a material system which is uniform in chemical composition and physical state." [1] This is similar to what we have now, and I think we should use the words of IUPAC as the initial definition to start the article, with a link to the Gold Book.
IUPAC does not refer to a set of states, but we could add a remark after the definition. Perhaps something like "For systems in equilibrium, a phase may be considered as a set (or range) of thermodynamic states whose properties vary continuously." Yes, I did forget about non-equilibrium states until reading your last edit; if we follow IUPAC and do not present this remark as a general definition, then we can just exclude them with the initial phrase "For systems in equilibrium".
Unfortunately the Gold Book does not help with state of matter, which is not among the 6852 terms it defines. Dirac66 (talk) 01:30, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
- It has to be clear that we are not merely putting the definition in a different way, but talking about an overloaded word.
- Gold standard or not, the Modell & Reid definition is more precise, although I agree the difference is small. The authors were MIT professors researching and teaching thermodynamics. I have no idea who writes the IUPAC. I trust my authors thought about the words of their definition very carefully and were informed by many issues that arise in the field. It seems to me "entity" could be ambiguous if not confusing, as could the meaning of "material system". We have useful definitions of system and thermodynamic state and it makes sense to leverage those in the absence of equivalent options.Paul V. Keller (talk) 01:58, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Well, the Modell-Reid definition is certainly clearer, and close enough to the official IUPAC version so that I think it is acceptable. I agree that "entity" is certainly a confusing word, and "region" is much clearer. The important point is that the basic definition should contain the idea of a uniform subsystem (entity or region in physical space), rather than the idea of a set of states (in parameter space) which is more complicated and also only applies to equilibrium systems. Dirac66 (talk) 04:09, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
if water will notfunction as the solvent[edit]
what to yse if water will work as a solvent on a hydrophobic substance likeink —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 00:52, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Phase transitions[edit]
I want to know the State, Matter, Heat/Cool. Process, Changes, State of Solid Liquid Gases —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.104.22.168 (talk) 15:55, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
The nomenclature for the various phase transitions is given in the article State of matter. Dirac66 (talk) 16:27, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
State Of Matter[edit]
Why does State Of Matter redirect here instead of to State of matter? I'd change it, but maybe there's a reason I don't know about? -- CowplopmorrisTalkContribs 12:16, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- That redirect dated from 2004, when there was no State of matter article. I have now fixed the redirect. Dirac66 (talk) 18:00, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
500+ phases[edit]
According to [2] doi:10.1126/science.1227224 there should be more than 500+ phases -- 184.108.40.206 (talk) 01:27, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes, there are more than 500+ phases. In fact, the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database has 161,030 entries, each of which represent a phase (although some might not have a phase boundary between them). As the authors of the Science paper state in their abstratc, by symmetry arguments alone, there are 230 possible different crystal structures, each of which would need to be its own phase. More phases are indeed possible when one considers additional degrees of freedom. Are you asking us to clarify the number of topologically distinct phases possible in general? Mgibby5 (talk) 14:44, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
List of phases?[edit]
I would like to have all known phases of matter listed somewhere, either in the form of a bullet list or as a table. Currently, you just have to read the text in hope of finding them all implicitly listed somewhere, although they are not. Could anyone who know which all these phases are please make a list of them? —Kri (talk) 21:03, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
It is fairly inconvenient to list all possible, distinct phases: each different crystal structure is a different phase, by symmetry arguments. Further, several different phases can exist in equilibrium with each other, but each have the same crystal structure, just as liquids can exist in equilibrium with one another (oil and water are separate phases, despite possessing the same symmetries). It is not useful in practice to provide a list of all possible phases. Mgibby5 (talk) 14:37, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Can we have a section on the history of the discovery of phase structures, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 13:08, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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The Leonard Lopate Essay Contest
(published in Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis, Little, Brown, 1981) —
We had been going out only a month when she began knitting a sweater. It was bluish-grey flecked, a pretty wool, and Sara was making for herself, she said, because she was tired of knitting things for other people
I accepted this with good grace. Whenever I go out with a woman, she tells me, "Oh, if you had only known me in the old days, I would have cooked you a huge breakfast," In the old days they drew baths, they made seven-course meals, they typed for their men: by the time they get to me, they are always turning over a new leaf. I'm used to it.
Besides, it was good that Sara was knitting. She wasn't much of a conversationalist, and the knitting gave her something to do with her hands while I was talking. Oh, I tried to get her to talk. She'd stop and start with preliminary apologies like "I'm not saying this right" or "Probably this will sound dumb to you, but…" so that I'd get itchy and want to push the fast-forward button.
To be frank, we were mismatched intellectually. She was ten years younger than I, which added to her shyness. But people can't be the same or equal in every department. When you go out looking for love, the point is to find the Other. Vive la difference, right? And she had other adorable qualities. The first time I saw her I thought, This is for me. That inner glow, that open smile. And what a body! She could have been a Playboy centerfold (except she didn't have orange skin). The odd thing was, she didn't seem to know she was a beauty. Whenever I complimented her features she brushed it aside as if I were crazy. She would peel off her flannel checked shirt and jeans and get into bed next to me without the least self-excitement, as though any lumberjack's wife might be expected to look like her. I didn't know where to start. I could have spent a half hour worshiping each portion. But she lay stiff as a board, not really grasping what I was getting so worked up over. I was drooling like a man invited to a feast at a religious household who can't remember the right words to say grace so that everyone can begin to eat. In the end she would accept the entrée, but the soup, the nuts, the fruit cup, the creamed cauliflower, the after-dinner mints, didn't interest her.
At most, her hands feathered my back as a reluctant signal of participation. Deep down, I thought, maybe she just doesn't like me?
A week or so after thinking this, I got an encouraging surprise. She bicycled over to my house at lunchtime (that was not the surprise, she bicycled everywhere) and, frowning, said she had something for me but it was damaged, she was very upset. She pulled out of a brown paper bag the woolen sleeveless sweater.
"For me!" I cried.
"Oh, you knew it was for you all along, you must have guessed a long time ago. I'm such a poor liar."
"No, I didn't. I'm totally surprised." I kissed her gratefully, wrapping my arms around her. She was practically crying. "What's the matter?"
"I brought it to the cleaners to be blocked, and they burnt it, see?" She showed me two scorch marks, where the bluish grey had been singed brown.
"That's nothing," I said, trying it on. It fit snugly and the wool felt beautiful against my bare chest (as it happened, I was naked at the time), like chain mail. "A dry cleaner'll remove those spots."
"No, they can't, because it's organic!" She said the word with a peculiar pungency. "Wool is organic. It's just as if they had burned your skin."
"I'm sure they can do something."
"Will you take it to them? I don't have the heart to ask and find out it's ruined…"
"Silly! Don't you understand how happy I am that you knitted this for me. That's what's important."
"But it's spoiled!"
"But I love you." I took her into my arms. "I love you!"
"I love you too," she whimpered. Then she left to bicycle back to work.
Of course she liked me! How could I think she didn't. And she was an angel! She had even knitted me a sweater.
I took the sweater to the best dry cleaner's in the neighborhood, the Hungarian's. He only confirmed what Sara had suspected: that there was no way to remove the scorch marks. "I'd only be taking your money," he said, with a sort of Old World knowledge of limits. So I brought the sweater back to Sara because she said she would rip out the row at the top where it was scorched and do them over again. But not right away. She said she didn't have the heart to go back to it right away.
I didn't want to rush her, but I hoped, after a week or so, that she would return the sweater soon, because things were not exactly going well between us. She seemed withdrawn. I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong, but I began to prepare myself for the romance to collapse in two months' time. Of course once you decide two months it's more like two minutes. I remember the time I was going out with G____. It was the last week in October and my birthday was still two weeks away; she had planned to buy me a beautiful bathrobe. We were having our problems, but I figured we would hold until after New Year's, or at least until after my birthday. We broke up October 29. No robe. This time I was determined to get the sweater.
Friday night we were to get together late, around eleven at my house. Sara had some chores to do first, and I had been sitting around watching the late movie, waiting for her to come by. I was in a contented mood. Sara arrived at 11:45, looking wistful as she wheeled her bicycle into my living room, and announced that she was depressed. She apologized for being depressed. She had been unhappy all week.
"How come?" I asked.
"Oh, it's stupid to talk about – mostly because I'm not accomplishing what I set out to accomplish when I moved to New York."
"Like what?"
"The job, my music lessons, everything. I'm sorry, I'm not much fun to be with tonight."
"You don't have to be jolly to spend time with me."
"I know, but – I don't want to talk about myself, it's so boring, I'd rather hear what you've been doing and I'll just listen."
So we did.
After twenty minutes of review-of-the-day, with Sara asking "listener"-type questions and knitting (something else – a cap; she still did not have the heart to redo the sweater), she put away her knitting needles and said she was going home. She was really too depressed; she had to be by herself tonight.
I should have just let her go. But I was beginning to wonder of this was part of a larger pattern to avoid, in general, spending the night with me. Suddenly I sensed that her depression was not only about her job or the "little things" she said upset her so much and shouldn't have – but that it was about us as well. Mostly about us.
"Tell me what's wrong."
"You're so forgiving and kind and patient with me," she said, "and it makes me feel guilty because I'm so selfish and I'm giving you so little in return."
Ominous words. When a woman starts the kind-and-patient business, it's like handing you your hat and coat.
Let's get to the point, I said to myself.
After a certain amount of tooth-pulling and high-speed drilling, it came out that she was indeed a reluctant partner in this romance. Our worlds were too dissimilar, she said; our paths didn't seem to converge naturally. "It doesn't feel like – me," she kept repeating.
I will do anything for love. I will tie myself to a bicycle wheel, I will beg. I will humiliate myself. But for this shilly-shallying consolation, this nebbishly urban arrangement to dull the pain of loneliness – no. I would rather have the truth and be done with it.
I brought up her reluctance in bed. She said that had given her great pain. "When one person is more sexually attracted to the other…" Sara faltered.
"Now I'm insulted."
"Well, I didn't mean to insult you, that wasn't at all why I said that. You told me to be honest."
"You're being honest and that's commendable; and I'm being honest by telling you that I'm insulted."
She thought for a minute before speaking again. "What makes me feel bad is that…when you like someone in so many ways, it should be possible to like him in all ways, including the sexual. It seems like a shallowness on my part that I make that separation…I know you think I'm shallow because of it."
This was poppycock. You're either turned on or you're not. Hadn't I learned that hard wisdom in the past, by being in her position enough times that all I wanted to do was run? And yet, the fact that she no longer wanted me to be her lover hurt me more than I expected. Suddenly it seemed as if everything I had loved was pushing me away. Why, you male chauvinist pig! I can hear the reader say. You got what you deserved! All you wanted was to hold on to a body that gave you constant erections – you didn't care about her, any more than she cared about you. Probably not. And yet – this is no small thing, to love the physical. Besides, I did have a certain sympathy and affection for her above and beyond the carnal. Perhaps I've neglected to describe it. Oh well; too late.
"What should we do?" she asked, in a voice tinged with apprehensiveness.
"I guess," I found myself saying helpfully, "I guess we should stop seeing each other."
Now she began thrashing around in her guilt, the ramifications of her long-kept secret of not being able to love me, enjoying the power of speech more than I had ever heard her. Explanations came easily, now that the pressure was off her. It was 1:30, I was beginning to wish I had watched the rest of the late movie – Alfie, appropriately – instead of having to listen to all this. I awoke from my reverie to hear her say:
"But the bottom line is my feelings."
What can you say to a line like that? All you can do is nod. But then, with a sincerity that demanded no less than total honesty from me, Sara paused, to ask the classic question of our times. Liebnitz had his all-consuming conundrum; we have our philosopher's stone. "What are you feeling now?"
"I'm waiting for you to leave, so that I can go to bed."
She got up and left without a word. I helped her with the door while she wheeled her bicycle out.
It now occurs to me that she may have wanted to go home earlier to avoid this confrontation – in order to prolong, that is, our unnatural life as a couple. It was I who probably forced things to an end. When she had gone, the first I thought of, naturally, was my sweater, which I had only gotten to wear for a minute. Just like the phantom bathrobe. These things are always happening to me. If only I would learn to lie low, I could have a whole new wardrobe by now!


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Amanda Seyfried Talks Panic Attacks, Justin Timberlake & Aging
Amanda Seyfried may be one of the coolest and most down to earth young actresses in Hollywood today. Plus, she's really talented, which is quite a plus. The actress November's Glamour UK cover girl and opened up about a lot of things in her interview from how she deals with the pressures of Hollywood, dating, aging and of course, how awesome Justin Timberlake is. Read on for some highlights from the interview.
On Justin Timberlake: "Oh, only a lesbian or a straight man could resist the Trousersnake. Justin really is unique, but he has a difficult life. I mean, he can't walk down the street anymore and that's such a shame because freedom is everything." (Look how good they look on the set of their new film In Time.)
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On aging in Hollywood: "Living in a society where there's so much attention given to age-defying products, I'm really aware of how my face is changing, even at my age. I've got this one stress line that goes right down the middle of my forehead."
On panic attacks and therapy: "[Therapy] has been such a great tool, and my therapist told me that I passed with flying colors, but we'll see how things go. I still do get terribly nervous, and that's partly due to the fact I think too much and overanalyze things. I'll start worrying about my parents or my dog, and I'll picture him opening the window of my apartment and falling out, even though I can't get that thing open myself."
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I have an 06 Sti with the stock radio, has anyone come up with a way to hook up a MP3 player to it? or do i have to buy an aftermarket radio to do this?
This is a discussion on Ipod Hook Up within the Electronics/Car Audio forums, part of the Interior Mods category; I have an 06 Sti with the stock radio, has anyone come up with a way to hook up a ...
I have an 06 Sti with the stock radio, has anyone come up with a way to hook up a MP3 player to it? or do i have to buy an aftermarket radio to do this?
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STILL Hawk Eye Alliance #31
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Best option for factory stereo, unless you want to use an FM transmitter and save yourself the work.
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FM transmitter is decent, Tape deck on the stock deck is known for having lousy audio (something about odd/low frequency response if memory serves), but direct CD audio should be golden.
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gJb Hawk-Eye Alliance #002
Just bought a Jazzy Board...looking forward to install my 30 Gb I-Pod.
And the plug will work also with my Sirius.
pics of it postinstall.....the wire that is
gJb Hawk-Eye Alliance #002
followed your discussion on the jazzy engineering aux -in port
bought the thing and installed it, works great - I ran the cable out the hole for the ashtray holder after removing the tray. My video Ipod seems to sit fine down in that space, but I was wondering where else anyone would considering putting an ipod or if there are any good mounting options already out there?
I bought the JE connection as well and Im waiting to get it in the mail, my plans are to buy a cheap ipod/cell phone mount at best buy or walmart and mount it near that blank space next to the cupholder that way its within sight and reach without too much distraction
that sounds like a good plan, you'll have to post some pictures when you get it set up
has anyone ordered and recieved from JE, I was just wondering what kind of shipping time im looking at, ordered about a week ago so Im still waiting for it to get here, I was hoping it would be here by today so I could hook it up this weekend
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get a Jazzy board, its easy to install.. really...
get the belkin auto kit
and the tunedock works well too...