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Phase diagrams that include metastable equilibria can be constructed from empirical observations on metastable phases and extrapolations of data from stable phases. Such diagrams contain useful hierarchical information about metastable phase equilibrium sequences.
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Cahn, J.W. Obtaining inferences about relative stability and metastable phase sequences from phase diagrams. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 1, 27–32 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02881174
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