Talk:Solid solution

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Solid solution was a good article, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Delisted version: October 23, 2005

[edit] Delisted GA

There are no references. slambo 16:54, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Exsolution

I added a tag on the exsolution paragraph, since exsolution redirects here. I also sugest a little cleanup here, since it looks a bit messy, with no clear introduction and no "body". I think i will write an exsolution-article when i have enough time.Gwissi 21:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

This term 'exsolution' seems to be a mainly geophysical term (considering the example given is feldspar...). What is described appears to be what is normally called precipitation from a supersaturated solid solution due to a transition to a state below the solvus on the (n-number of phases)phase diagram by physicists, chemists and material scientists. Although the term 'exsolution' is fairly descriptive for anybody with any scientific or latin knowledge, it is not the standard term in scientific literature. Also, perhaps some more common examples those from metallurgy (eg steel precipitates) might be useful. What do others think? If nobody wishes to add to this article, I am quite happy to soon, and will be able to reference everything to standard phase transformation textbooks (eg Porter & Easterling). Mike 23:36, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, just to add: the opposite of 'microscopic' is 'macroscopic', and phas transitions can be produce a myriad of new phase morphologies, not just 'lamellae'.Mike 23:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Examples?

This article seriously needs at least one example of a solid solution. I would think that hydrogen gas dissolved in e.g. palladium metal would qualify, but I'm not sure enough to put it on the page. Anyone else who could give an example of both an interstitial and a substitional solid state solution would be much appreciated. Mr0t1633 (talk) 22:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)