Amiscibility gap is a region in aphase diagram for amixture of components where the mixture exists as two or morephases – any region of composition of mixtures where the constituents are not completely miscible.
TheIUPAC Gold Book definesmiscibility gap as "Area within the coexistence curve of an isobaric phase diagram (temperature vs composition) or an isothermal phase diagram (pressure vs composition)."[1]
A miscibility gap between isostructural phases may be described as thesolvus, a term also used to describe the boundary on a phase diagram between a miscibility gap and other phases.[2]
Thermodynamically, miscibility gaps indicate a maximum (e.g. ofGibbs energy) in the composition range.[3][4]
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