One of our campers,
Michael Martin, in Salt Lake City was searching for a phase diagram for iron while my co-master teacher explained the glory that is the
iron wire demonstration. See, phase diagrams are comfortable and familiar for we few, we happy few,
we chemistry teachers.
Luckily, he found a
really nice one showing the various allotropes of iron at different temperatures (and at really low pressures.)
Not everybody else looks at a
phase diagram as familiar, comfortable territory, but we do, and sometimes it helps to put new information (the crystal changes for iron at increasing temperature) in a familiar form.
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