This lecture exercise set by Dr. Armen N Amirkhanian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The Al2O3-TiO2 phase diagram is from the freely available ...

Final thoughts This article discusses “simple” binary phase diagrams. In reality, alloys are made from many elements; each element moves these various phase boundaries around. More than about two or ...

However, the predictions of phase diagrams are not always realized; systems often become undercooled, supersaturated, or trapped in gel-like states.