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This teaching and learning package is based on a practical used within the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. The package is aimed at first year undergraduate Materials Science students and focuses on the different types of solid solution and the thermodynamic principles involved in understanding them.

	Aims Before you start Introduction Solid solutions Olivine Thermodynamics of solid solutions Free energy Exsolution in phase diagrams Demonstration of phase separation Precipitates from solid solution Monte Carlo simulation Web version of Monte Carlo simulation Summary Questions Going further

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First created: April 2004. Last updated: November 2007.