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Named after Rudolf Clausius and Émile Clapeyron.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A way of characterizing a discontinuous phase transition between two phases of matter of a single constituent. It gives the slope of the tangents to the "coexistence curve" that separates the two phases on a pressure-temperature diagram. Full definition →
Named after Rudolf Clausius and Émile Clapeyron.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.