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A translation of Paul Ehrenfest's 1933 paper, entitled Phase transitions in the usual and generalized sense, classified according to the singularities of the thermodynamic potential is presented. Some historical commentary about the paper's context is also given.
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Sauer, T. A look back at the Ehrenfest classification. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 226, 539–549 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60344-y
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