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Steven Brust

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. His recent novels also include The Incrementalists (2013) and its sequel The Skill of Our Hands (2017), with co-author Skyler White.

As a drummer and singer-songwriter, Brust has recorded one solo album and two albums as a member of Cats Laughing. Brust also co-wrote songs on two albums recorded in the mid-1990s by the band Boiled in Lead.

The Dragaeran books
The Vlad Taltos series, written as high fantasy with a science fiction underpinning, is set on a planet called Dragaera. The events of the series take place in an Empire mostly inhabited and ruled by the Dragaerans, a genetically engineered humanoid species, having characteristics such as greatly extended lifespans and heights averaging about seven feet. Referred to as "elfs" by some humans, they refer to themselves as "human". The Dragaeran Empire controls a region that is "enclouded" by a perpetual overcast that blocks the sun from view.

Vlad Taltos is one of the human minority (known by Dragaerans as "Easterners"), which exists as a lower class in the Empire. Vlad also practices the human art of witchcraft; "táltos" is Hungarian for a kind of supernatural person in folklore. Though human, he is a citizen of the Empire because his social-climbing father bought a title in one of the less reputable of the 17 Dragaeran Great Houses. The only Great House that sells memberships this way is, not coincidentally, also the one that maintains a criminal organization. Vlad proves surprisingly successful in this organization. Despite being a human and a criminal, he has a number of high-ranking Dragaeran friends and often gets caught up in important events.

Brust has written 17 published novels in the series, which is proposed to run to nineteen novels – one named for each of the Great Houses, one named for Vlad himself (Taltos), and a final novel which Brust has said will be titled The Final Contract. The first three novels resemble private-eye detective stories, perhaps the closest being Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. The later novels are more varied than the first three. Though they read like fantasy, there are science-fictional explanations for some things.

Brust has also written another series set in Dragaera, the Khaavren Romances, set centuries before Vlad's time. Since Dragaerans live for thousands of years, many characters appear in both series. It is partly an homage to Alexandre Dumas père's novels about The Three Musketeers, and is five volumes long, following the pattern of Dumas' series. The books are presented as historical novels written by Paarfi of Roundwood, a Dragaeran roughly contemporary with Vlad. Paarfi's old-fashioned, elaborate, and highly verbose writing is explicitly based on Dumas', though with a dialogue style that is, at times, based on Tom Stoppard's wordgames in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (according to Pamela Dean's introduction to Five Hundred Years After). The Baron of Magister Valley, an additional Paarfi novel, is modeled after Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.

The two series are finally brought together in the thirteenth novel in the Vlad series, Tiassa, which can also be viewed as the sixth novel in the Khaavren series. Tiassa comprises what are in effect three related novellas, each told in a different style and connected by a common theme. The first section reads like the first three novels in the series, with first-person narration by Vlad but including Khaavren's son, Piro; the second section has a different viewpoint character in each of its chapters; and the third section is narrated by Paarfi in the style of the earlier Khaavren Romances, with Khaavren as the viewpoint character and interacting with Vlad.

Short stories
Most of Brust's short stories are set in shared universes. These include Emma Bull's and Will Shetterly's Liavek, Robert Asprin's Thieves' World, Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Terri Windling's Borderland Series.

Style and literary theory
Brust was a founding member of a Minnesota-based writers' group called The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede. He also was a founding member of the Pre-Joycean Fellowship.

He has rejected a distinction between science fiction and fantasy, stating that no belief in such a distinction can withstand an encounter with the writing of Roger Zelazny.

Writing style
There is a certain amount of variation in the writing style amongst the Taltos novels, as well as between Brust's various series. Brust uses a different narrative approach in almost every novel in the Taltos series. Some of these approaches are more purely stylistic and have minor effects on the actual story-telling; some are profound and involve the point of view of characters whom the reader never expected to get to know so well.

Further, as the writing of the Taltos novels has spanned over four decades, they have been influenced by events in Brust's own life. A fascination with the Mafia – subsequently brought into a somewhat shocking perspective by the murder of a friend – profoundly influenced his storylines, as did the breakup of his marriage. The events and arguments of his books, especially Teckla, are acknowledged by Brust to be influenced by his lifelong interest in Marxist theory and practice. Brust's parents were activists in the Workers League, the predecessor to the Socialist Equality Party, and he continues to identify as a "Trotskyist sympathizer," linking to the SEP-affiliated World Socialist Web Site on his personal website. He endorsed the SEP's presidential candidates in the 2016 US elections.

Literary theory
In contrast to contemporary academic studies in literature, Brust has put forward what he called "The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature":

"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. And that works all the way from the external trappings to the level of metaphor, subtext, and the way one uses words. In other words, I happen not to think that full-plate armor and great big honking greatswords are cool. I don't like 'em. I like cloaks and rapiers. So I write stories with a lot of cloaks and rapiers in 'em, 'cause that's cool. Guys who like military hardware, who think advanced military hardware is cool, are not gonna jump all over my books, because they have other ideas about what's cool."

Brust elaborated, "The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff."

Motifs
The character Devera, usually a cute brown-eyed girl of about nine, appears as a motif in all of Brust's novels. In the Dragaeran books, her name is Devera. She is the (future) daughter of another character and seems to be able to appear anywhere in time and space. In Brust's non-Dragaeran books her appearances are usually brief and not always obvious.

Musical recordings and performances
Brust is a singer-songwriter and drummer who has recorded a solo album, and who has played in the Minneapolis-based folk rock band Cats Laughing, and with the Albany Free Traders, and Morrigan.

Brust also co-wrote two songs on the 1994 album Antler Dance by the band Boiled in Lead (BiL), as well as many of the songs on BiL's 1995 multimedia CD Songs from The Gypsy.

Cats Laughing
Cats Laughing released two albums with Brust as the drummer, in 1988 and 1990. Brust also contributed as a songwriter and vocalist. The 1990 album Another Way to Travel features cover art that depicts the band members and a vehicle known as the Catmobile, the band vehicle for Cats Laughing. The car, owned by Brust, was a Cadillac ambulance, painted yellow, light blue, and dark blue, with murals.

On April 3, 2015, Brust performed as part of Cats Laughing in a reunion concert at the Minicon 50 science fiction convention in Bloomington, Minnesota. In March 2016, Cats Laughing released a double CD of their 2015 reunion, A Long Time Gone, as well as a DVD by the same title with documentary concert footage.

Solo
A Rose for Iconoclastes, a folk (or folk pop) album released in 1993, is Brust's only solo album. The title is a reference to "A Rose for Ecclesiastes", a short story by Brust's literary hero and mentor Roger Zelazny.

Twelve of the fourteen songs were written or co-written by Brust. The album was produced by Adam Stemple, a fellow fantasy writer and member of Cats Laughing.

Songs from The Gypsy (1995)
The 1995 enhanced CD Songs from The Gypsy, by the band Boiled in Lead, featured songs written by Brust and Adam Stemple, as well as the full text of Brust's novel The Gypsy.

AllMusic reviewer Steven McDonald called Songs from The Gypsy "an example of Brust's serious songwriting working well."

Conversely, a critical review by AllMusic's Roch Parisien emphasized that "Songs from The Gypsy represents a failure of multimedia integration. As an audio CD, the disc serves up ten songs, ranging from acoustic trad to bluesy rockers, that ironically form a less cohesive whole than previous Boiled in Lead releases. The better numbers (like the title track) incorporate Celtic rock with Hungarian, Middle Eastern, and other interesting worldbeat influences." Parisien found the album's integration with the novel unsuccessful, in that the novel's 17 chapters were presented as "scrollable text only, which also intersperse some 80 song lyric excerpts that you can play from hot buttons. Annoyingly, you must flip back to the main menu index to move from one chapter to the next." Parisien concluded, "Despite Brust's engrossingly poetic, impressionist story inspired by Hungarian folk tales and revolving around three Gypsy brothers, the project does not overcome the primary limitation of bringing literature to the computer screen, that being that the computer offers an inhospitable environment for viewing literature-length text." The review, written in 1995, predated a wave of popular e-book readers that began to emerge about ten years later.

Other performances
Brust has performed dramatically in several Shockwave Radio Theater productions, notably Closing Ceremonies (aka The Fall of the House of Usherette) and PBS Liavek.

Award nominations
Brust's short story "When The Bow Breaks" was nominated for the 1998 Nebula Award.

Five Hundred Years After was nominated for the 1995 Locus Poll Award (Best Fantasy Novel). Other novels nominated for various Locus Poll Awards were Brokedown Palace, The Gypsy, Agyar, and Freedom & Necessity.

Dragon was a finalist for the 1999 Minnesota Book Awards in the Fantasy & Science Fiction category. Freedom and Necessity was a 1998 finalist for the same category, while The Phoenix Guards was a finalist in 1992.

Brust discovered in August 2006 that he had made the New York Times extended bestseller list at number 30 with Dzur. He mentioned his ambivalence on this subject online. SciFi Wire posted an interview with Brust after Dzur came out.

Dragaera
There are two series set in the world of Dragaera, the Khaavren Romances and the Vlad Taltos novels. They are set in different periods in the world, but some characters are common to both series.

Standalone Dragaera novel

 * Brokedown Palace (1986)

Paarfi's historical romances
A series of Dragaeran historical romances, which take place centuries earlier than the Vlad Taltos novels, was written in the narrative voice of Paarfi of Roundwood, a Dragaeran historian. Paarfi describes these novels as works of history written for a popular audience, and published with great success during the reigns of Empresses Zerika IV and Norathar II.

 * The Khaavren Romances consist of three works, published as five books. The third and longest work, Paarfi's account of the Interregnum titled The Viscount of Adrilankha, was published in three volumes as individually-titled books.
 * The Phoenix Guards (1991)
 * Five Hundred Years After (1994)
 * The Paths of the Dead (2002) – Vol. 1 of The Viscount of Adrilankha
 * The Lord of Castle Black (2003) – Vol. 2 of The Viscount of Adrilankha
 * Sethra Lavode (2004) – Vol. 3 of The Viscount of Adrilankha

 * The Baron of Magister Valley (2020) – a standalone Paarfi novel

Vlad Taltos
There are currently 17 novels in the series, with a total of 19 planned. The 18th planned novel will be named after the remaining Dragaeran Great House, Chreotha, and the concluding book The Final Contract.

 * 1) Jhereg (1983)
 * 2) Yendi (1984)
 * 3) Teckla (1987)
 * 4) Taltos (1988)
 * 5) Phoenix (1990)
 * 6) Athyra (1993)
 * 7) Orca (1996)
 * 8) Dragon (1998)
 * 9) Issola (2001)
 * 10) Dzur (2006)
 * 11) Jhegaala (2008)
 * 12) Iorich (2010)
 * 13) Tiassa (2011)
 * 14) Hawk (2014)
 * 15) Vallista (2017)
 * 16) Tsalmoth (2023)
 * 17) Lyorn (2024)

Short Stories

 * "A Dream of Passion" (1986) – published by the Ad Astra science fiction convention in its 1986 chapbook (non-canon sequel)
 * "Klava with Honey" (2005) – a prologue to Dzur, published by the Buffalo Fantasy League in EerieCon Chapbook #4
 * "The Desecrator" (2011) – published online by Tor Books

In in-series chronological order

 * 1) "The Desecrator" (2011)
 * 2) Jhereg, prologue (1983)
 * 3) Taltos (1988)
 * 4) Dragon, main chapters (1998)
 * 5) Yendi (1984)
 * 6) Dragon, interludes (1998)
 * 7) Tiassa, section 1: Tag (2011)
 * 8) Tsalmoth (2023)
 * 9) Jhereg, main chapters (1983)
 * 10) Teckla (1987)
 * 11) Phoenix (1990)
 * 12) Jhegaala (2008)
 * 13) Athyra (1993)
 * 14) Orca (1996)
 * 15) Issola (2001)
 * 16) "Klava with Honey" (2005) – a prologue to Dzur, published by the Buffalo Fantasy League in EerieCon Chapbook #4
 * 17) Dzur (2006)
 * 18) Tiassa, section 2: Whitecrest (2011)
 * 19) Iorich (2010)
 * 20) Tiassa, section 3: Special Tasks (2011)
 * 21) Vallista (2017)
 * 22) Hawk (2014)
 * 23) Tsalmoth, epilogue (2023)
 * 24) Lyorn (2024)

Omnibuses

 * 1) The Book of Jhereg (contains Jhereg, Yendi and Teckla)
 * 2) The Book of Taltos (contains Taltos and Phoenix)
 * 3) The Book of Athyra (contains Athyra and Orca)
 * 4) Dragon & Issola (contains Dragon and Issola – Science Fiction Book Club edition, hardcover)
 * 5) The Book of Dragon (contains Dragon and Issola – Tor paperback)
 * 6) The Book of Dzur (contains Dzur and Jhegaala)

Novels

 * The Incrementalists (2013) – with Skyler White
 * The Skill of Our Hands (2017) – with Skyler White

Short fiction

 * "Fireworks in the Rain" (2013) – (by Brust only), published online by Tor Books
 * "Strongest Conjuration" (2014) – (by White only), set directly after the events of The Incrementalists, published online by Tor Books
 * "Playing God" (2017) – by Brust only, featuring Roger Zelazny's character Francis Sandow, in Shadows and Reflections: A Roger Zelazny Tribute Anthology (edited by Trent Zelazny and Warren Lapine)

Other novels

 * To Reign in Hell (1984)
 * The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (1987)
 * Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille (1990)
 * The Gypsy (1992) – with Megan Lindholm
 * Agyar (1993)
 * Freedom & Necessity (1997) – with Emma Bull
 * My Own Kind of Freedom (2008, self-released) – fan fiction novel based on the TV series Firefly
 * Good Guys (2018)
 * The Sword of Happenstance (2021) - With Skyler White

Other short stories

 * "An Act of Contrition" in Liavek (1985, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly; Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology)
 * "An Act of Trust" in Liavek: The Players of Luck (1986, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
 * "An Act of Mercy" in Liavek: Wizard's Row (1987, with Megan Lindholm; edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
 * "An Act of Love" in Liavek: Spells of Binding (1988, with Gregory Frost and Megan Lindholm; edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
 * "Csucskári" (Excerpt from The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars) in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection (1988, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling)
 * "A Hot Night at Cheeky's" in Liavek: Festival Week (1990, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
 * "Looking Forward: Excerpt from Athyra" in Amazing Stories, March 1993 (1993, edited by Kim Mohan)
 * "Attention Shoppers" in Xanadu (1993, edited by Jane Yolen)
 * "Abduction from the Harem" in Timewalker Issue 14 (October 1996, published by Valiant Comics)
 * "Drift" in Space Opera (1996, edited by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
 * "Valóság and Élet" in Sandman: Book of Dreams (1996, edited by Neil Gaiman and Edward E. Kramer)
 * "Calling Pittsburgh" in Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny (1998, edited by Martin H. Greenberg)
 * "When the Bow Breaks" in The Essential Bordertown (1998, edited by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman)
 * "The Man From Shemhaza" in Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune (2004, edited by Lynn Abbey), reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer)
 * "Chapter One" in EerieCon Chapbook #6 for the convention EerieCon (2007, via the Buffalo Fantasy League)
 * "Bluff" (2008)
 * "Mira" in Sword and Sorceress XXV (2010, edited by Elisabeth Waters)
 * "Playing God" in Shadows & Reflections: A Roger Zelazny Tribute Anthology (2017, edited by Trent Zelazny & Warren Lapine)
 * "Smith's Point" in DreamForge Magazine (Founders' Issue) (Feb. 2019, with Skyler White)

Introductions by Brust

 * In 1987, Tor Books published the gamebook Dzurlord (A Crossroads Adventure in the World of Steven Brust's Jhereg). Brust wrote the introduction for this book, which introduced readers to the world of Dragaera and its inhabitants.
 * Tor also published The Three Musketeers in paperback in 1994. Brust introduced the edition, saying that this translation (anonymous, originally published in 1888) was his favorite.
 * Brust contributed the introduction for Manna from Heaven. Wildside Press published this collection of stories from Roger Zelazny in 2003.

References in other media

 * Brust's book Dragon is the subject of an argument in the webcomic Penny Arcade. Cartoonist Jerry Holkins later noted that the comic was based on an actual conversation about Brust's work at a convention.
 * Brust's band, Cats Laughing, appears in issue No. 5 of a Marvel comic book called Excalibur. Brust is the only member of the band who is both seen onstage and named.  Emma Bull also appears, but names everyone in the band except herself. Brust was seen again in a one-shot special issue, Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem, in which the mutant superhero Shadowcat attends a Cats Laughing concert in Edinburgh and mentions previously having seen the band at Windycon.

Book title nicknames
Brust is known for his propensity to give his books alternate titles for his own amusement. These have cropped up in numerous interviews and online forums, starting with "Jarhead" for Jhereg. Examples include:

 * Jarhead (Jhereg)
 * The Rain in Spain (To Reign in Hell)
 * Yentl (Yendi)
 * Ripple (Brokedown Palace)
 * Tacky (Teckla)
 * Crosby, Stills, and Nash (The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars)
 * Milquetoast (Taltos)
 * Shit Happens (Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille)
 * Tucson (Phoenix)
 * The Kleenex Guards (The Phoenix Guards)
 * Aw, Gee (Agyar)
 * Urethra (Athyra)
 * Five Hundred Beers After (Five Hundred Years After)
 * Porker (Orca)
 * Drag Queen (Dragon)
 * Is Ole (Issola)
 * The Laughs of the Fred (The Paths of the Dead)
 * The Whore of Castle Smack (The Lord of Castle Black)
 * Send in the Toad (Sethra Lavode)
 * Stir (Dzur)
 * Gigolo (Jhegaala)
 * My Own Kind of Whedon (My Own Kind of Freedom, Firefly fanfic)
 * Your Itch (Iorich)
 * Three Asses/Hadassah (Tiassa)
 * Spit (Hawk)
 * Good Goys (Good Guys)
 * Barista (Vallista)
 * Tall Mouth (Tsalmoth)

Brust does not have nicknames for collaborations out of respect for his collaborators, stating "It's one thing to not want to take myself seriously, and another thing to—I want to take them seriously."

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Phase diagram

A phase diagram in physical chemistry, engineering, mineralogy, and materials science is a type of chart used to show conditions (pressure, temperature, etc.) at which thermodynamically distinct phases (such as solid, liquid or gaseous states) occur and coexist at equilibrium.

Overview
Common components of a phase diagram are lines of equilibrium or phase boundaries, which refer to lines that mark conditions under which multiple phases can coexist at equilibrium. Phase transitions occur along lines of equilibrium. Metastable phases are not shown in phase diagrams as, despite their common occurrence, they are not equilibrium phases.

Triple points are points on phase diagrams where lines of equilibrium intersect. Triple points mark conditions at which three different phases can coexist. For example, the water phase diagram has a triple point corresponding to the single temperature and pressure at which solid, liquid, and gaseous water can coexist in a stable equilibrium ($273.16 K$ and a partial vapor pressure of $611.657 Pa$). The pressure on a pressure-temperature diagram (such as the water phase diagram shown) is the partial pressure of the substance in question.

The solidus is the temperature below which the substance is stable in the solid state. The liquidus is the temperature above which the substance is stable in a liquid state. There may be a gap between the solidus and liquidus; within the gap, the substance consists of a mixture of crystals and liquid (like a "slurry").

Working fluids are often categorized on the basis of the shape of their phase diagram.

Pressure vs temperature
The simplest phase diagrams are pressure–temperature diagrams of a single simple substance, such as water. The axes correspond to the pressure and temperature. The phase diagram shows, in pressure–temperature space, the lines of equilibrium or phase boundaries between the three phases of solid, liquid, and gas.

The curves on the phase diagram show the points where the free energy (and other derived properties) becomes non-analytic: their derivatives with respect to the coordinates (temperature and pressure in this example) change discontinuously (abruptly). For example, the heat capacity of a container filled with ice will change abruptly as the container is heated past the melting point. The open spaces, where the free energy is analytic, correspond to single phase regions. Single phase regions are separated by lines of non-analytical behavior, where phase transitions occur, which are called phase boundaries.

In the diagram on the right, the phase boundary between liquid and gas does not continue indefinitely. Instead, it terminates at a point on the phase diagram called the critical point. This reflects the fact that, at extremely high temperatures and pressures, the liquid and gaseous phases become indistinguishable, in what is known as a supercritical fluid. In water, the critical point occurs at around Tc = 647.096 K, pc = 22.064 MPa and ρc = 356 kg/m3.

The existence of the liquid–gas critical point reveals a slight ambiguity in labelling the single phase regions. When going from the liquid to the gaseous phase, one usually crosses the phase boundary, but it is possible to choose a path that never crosses the boundary by going to the right of the critical point. Thus, the liquid and gaseous phases can blend continuously into each other. The solid–liquid phase boundary can only end in a critical point if the solid and liquid phases have the same symmetry group.

For most substances, the solid–liquid phase boundary (or fusion curve) in the phase diagram has a positive slope so that the melting point increases with pressure. This is true whenever the solid phase is denser than the liquid phase. The greater the pressure on a given substance, the closer together the molecules of the substance are brought to each other, which increases the effect of the substance's intermolecular forces. Thus, the substance requires a higher temperature for its molecules to have enough energy to break out of the fixed pattern of the solid phase and enter the liquid phase. A similar concept applies to liquid–gas phase changes.

Water is an exception which has a solid-liquid boundary with negative slope so that the melting point decreases with pressure. This occurs because ice (solid water) is less dense than liquid water, as shown by the fact that ice floats on water. At a molecular level, ice is less dense because it has a more extensive network of hydrogen bonding which requires a greater separation of water molecules. Other exceptions include antimony and bismuth.

At very high pressures above 50 GPa (500 000 atm), liquid nitrogen undergoes a liquid-liquid phase transition to a polymeric form and becomes denser than solid nitrogen at the same pressure. Under these conditions therefore, solid nitrogen also floats in its liquid.

The value of the slope dP/dT is given by the Clausius–Clapeyron equation for fusion (melting)

 * $$\frac{\mathrm{d}P}{\mathrm{d}T} = \frac{\Delta H_\text{fus}}{T\,\Delta V_\text{fus}}, $$

where ΔHfus is the heat of fusion which is always positive, and ΔVfus is the volume change for fusion. For most substances ΔVfus is positive so that the slope is positive. However for water and other exceptions, ΔVfus is negative so that the slope is negative.

Other thermodynamic properties
In addition to temperature and pressure, other thermodynamic properties may be graphed in phase diagrams. Examples of such thermodynamic properties include specific volume, specific enthalpy, or specific entropy. For example, single-component graphs of temperature vs. specific entropy (T vs. s) for water/steam or for a refrigerant are commonly used to illustrate thermodynamic cycles such as a Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle, or vapor-compression refrigeration cycle.

Any two thermodynamic quantities may be shown on the horizontal and vertical axes of a two-dimensional diagram. Additional thermodynamic quantities may each be illustrated in increments as a series of lines—curved, straight, or a combination of curved and straight. Each of these iso-lines represents the thermodynamic quantity at a certain constant value.

3-dimensional diagrams
It is possible to envision three-dimensional (3D) graphs showing three thermodynamic quantities. For example, for a single component, a 3D Cartesian coordinate type graph can show temperature (T) on one axis, pressure (p) on a second axis, and specific volume (v) on a third. Such a 3D graph is sometimes called a p–v–T diagram. The equilibrium conditions are shown as curves on a curved surface in 3D with areas for solid, liquid, and vapor phases and areas where solid and liquid, solid and vapor, or liquid and vapor coexist in equilibrium. A line on the surface called a triple line is where solid, liquid and vapor can all coexist in equilibrium. The critical point remains a point on the surface even on a 3D phase diagram.

An orthographic projection of the 3D p–v–T graph showing pressure and temperature as the vertical and horizontal axes collapses the 3D plot into the standard 2D pressure–temperature diagram. When this is done, the solid–vapor, solid–liquid, and liquid–vapor surfaces collapse into three corresponding curved lines meeting at the triple point, which is the collapsed orthographic projection of the triple line.

Binary mixtures
Other much more complex types of phase diagrams can be constructed, particularly when more than one pure component is present. In that case, concentration becomes an important variable. Phase diagrams with more than two dimensions can be constructed that show the effect of more than two variables on the phase of a substance. Phase diagrams can use other variables in addition to or in place of temperature, pressure and composition, for example the strength of an applied electrical or magnetic field, and they can also involve substances that take on more than just three states of matter.

One type of phase diagram plots temperature against the relative concentrations of two substances in a binary mixture called a binary phase diagram, as shown at right. Such a mixture can be either a solid solution, eutectic or peritectic, among others. These two types of mixtures result in very different graphs. Another type of binary phase diagram is a boiling-point diagram for a mixture of two components, i. e. chemical compounds. For two particular volatile components at a certain pressure such as atmospheric pressure, a boiling-point diagram shows what vapor (gas) compositions are in equilibrium with given liquid compositions depending on temperature. In a typical binary boiling-point diagram, temperature is plotted on a vertical axis and mixture composition on a horizontal axis.

A two component diagram with components A and B in an "ideal" solution is shown. The construction of a liquid vapor phase diagram assumes an ideal liquid solution obeying Raoult's law and an ideal gas mixture obeying Dalton's law of partial pressure. A tie line from the liquid to the gas at constant pressure would indicate the two compositions of the liquid and gas respectively.

A simple example diagram with hypothetical components 1 and 2 in a non-azeotropic mixture is shown at right. The fact that there are two separate curved lines joining the boiling points of the pure components means that the vapor composition is usually not the same as the liquid composition the vapor is in equilibrium with. See Vapor–liquid equilibrium for more information.

In addition to the above-mentioned types of phase diagrams, there are many other possible combinations. Some of the major features of phase diagrams include congruent points, where a solid phase transforms directly into a liquid. There is also the peritectoid, a point where two solid phases combine into one solid phase during cooling. The inverse of this, when one solid phase transforms into two solid phases during cooling, is called the eutectoid.

A complex phase diagram of great technological importance is that of the iron–carbon system for less than 7% carbon (see steel).

The x-axis of such a diagram represents the concentration variable of the mixture. As the mixtures are typically far from dilute and their density as a function of temperature is usually unknown, the preferred concentration measure is mole fraction. A volume-based measure like molarity would be inadvisable.

Ternary phase diagrams
A system with three components is called a ternary system. At constant pressure the maximum number of independent variables is three – the temperature and two concentration values. For a representation of ternary equilibria a three-dimensional phase diagram is required. Often such a diagram is drawn with the composition as a horizontal plane and the temperature on an axis perpendicular to this plane. To represent composition in a ternary system an equilateral triangle is used, called Gibbs triangle (see also Ternary plot).

The temperature scale is plotted on the axis perpendicular to the composition triangle. Thus, the space model of a ternary phase diagram is a right-triangular prism. The prism sides represent corresponding binary systems A-B, B-C, A-C.

However, the most common methods to present phase equilibria in a ternary system are the following: 1) projections on the concentration triangle ABC of the liquidus, solidus, solvus surfaces; 2) isothermal sections; 3) vertical sections.

Crystals
Polymorphic and polyamorphic substances have multiple crystal or amorphous phases, which can be graphed in a similar fashion to solid, liquid, and gas phases.

Mesophases
Some organic materials pass through intermediate states between solid and liquid; these states are called mesophases. Attention has been directed to mesophases because they enable display devices and have become commercially important through the so-called liquid-crystal technology. Phase diagrams are used to describe the occurrence of mesophases.

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 * Thanks, it's much appreciated. :-) Good luck to you too. --Slartibartfast 03:17, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey please stop editing the Astrology page on Wikipedia so much -- the page was incredibly informative and now you took everything off of it that I had gathered over months; the page looks horrible now and is no longer even readable. I will be forced to revert your edits back to the previous versions -- sorry.

 * Hmm... well, I just thought it was a bit problematic to have lots of the same text exactly duplicated in multiple articles. If one article with duplicate text gets updated, none of the others do, unless someone goes to the trouble of tracking down all the other copies and changing them too. This seems like a big nuisance, and I think it hinders the evolution and improvement of the text.

 * I did find your additions quite worthwhile and interesting - however, I just think it's more manageable to have them on single pages of their own which can be linked to, rather than copying and pasting them repeatedly into every article in which they are relevant.

 * Best wishes,
 * --Slartibartfast 08:34, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * By the way, I was just browsing around Wikipedia's help material and started reading the info on templates, which I had never looked into before. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Template#Usage

 * It occurs to me that using a template might be a good compromise, as this might allow us to have the same information displayed in multiple articles, but internally, it will in fact be stored in only one place, and any edits to the template will automatically affect everyplace the template text is displayed.

 * This does seem much better than just having a link saying "See (such-and-such)" the way I put it, since I agree your material does vastly improve the readability of the astrology article.

 * I'm still trying to figure out how templates work or if this is a proper usage for them, but I just thought I'd point this out.

 * Best wishes,
 * --Slartibartfast 09:39, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, I've figured out templates. I made several which are demonstrated in my sandbox.  They can be embedded in any article by typing the template's name in double brackets, for instance:.

 * --Slartibartfast 10:49, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

OK thanks for reverting many of the changes to the "Astrology" article -- I didn't mean to offend you or anything -- I know that you are only trying to improve the page by making the space usage in the article more efficient. But alot of that stuff you deleted should be on that main page and then be explicated upon in the other main articles.

The templates are a good compromise, you are right -- the fact that you left the section on "The History of Astrology" out is just fine too. The article was already getting rather large (over 32 MBs) so I suppose it was time for some pruning to be done, but before you reverted it back there were just WAY too many links and not much of an article left! I felt like all that time I had spent gathering all of that pertinent information in one place had been wasted!

Thanks for helping us out on the "Astrology" article!

Take it Easy --

Adam

 * Thanks, and you're welcome. No offense was taken - this is what Wikipedia is all about. :-)  Any other concerns, don't hesitate to bring them up.

 * A pleasure working with you,
 * --Slartibartfast 22:50, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hello. We are building an astrology wiki. You should come join us. The site is at astrologynotes.org  I hope to see you there. --Chris Brennan 09:06, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you very much for the invitation! I just joined. --Slartibartfast 03:19, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Cyclotrons
Sorry for lateness--- the relativistic error for 3000m/s electrons in a cyclotron is going to be tiny, you shouldn't worry about it.Likebox (talk) 15:42, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

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I have nominated Bruce DePalma, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Bruce DePalma. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. THF (talk) 14:07, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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I found your old user page while checking out some old edits. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham 87 15:39, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Marie Laveau Song
The song you were describing on the Marie Laveau talk page is "Marie Laveau" by Dr. John. To me, this sounds like a blues rewrite of the country novelty song "Marie Laveau" by Bobby Bare (written by Shel Silverstein, was a country number one in 1974). Both songs purport to about the "historical" Marie Laveau, Bare's is negative and Dr. John's is positive. I don't think it would be out of line to add them to the page. Both songs illustrate the "Saint"/"Witch" dichotomy of the Laveau legend. There is mention of the original "Marie Laveau" song on the Bobby Bare page, but not on the Laveau page.Lehcarrenee (talk) 00:44, 2 September 2009 (UTC)Lehcarrenee

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. Nice work on BBC Microcomputer and other contribs. Cheers! --maveric149 Hi, nice work on the "Siberian" articles. As you may have noticed, I have added redirect pages for the city articles of the form "city, country" (with country Russia here). This is not really a Wikipedia policy, but some (especially Americans) tend to write city names in that way. Making these redirects facilitates that kind of linking. Also, don't forget to write to write in which country the city/region/whatever is located; not everybody knows Siberia is in Russia. Anyway, keep up the good work! -- jheijmans

 * Actually the [city, nation] format is a policy. See naming conventions. --mav
 * Actually, Mav is incorrect.  We don't actually have a "policy" -- just strongly suggested guidelines and a lot of peer pressure!  THe naming conventions are the result of discussion and cooperation by those people who care.  As for the Latin names page, I've removed the Slovenia from view by "pipelining" the names.  Now, it shows the cities, but links to the "city, country".  JHK
 * If they are only strongly suggested then why does RecentChanges say " Wikipedia policy (especially naming conventions, neutral point of view)"? Peterlin please delete all this rubbish that doesn't actually pertain to you. --mav
 * I would add here my point of view. I saw someone had changed the article Vipava to Vipava, Slovenia. In this 'policy' it would be preferable for example which geographical terms (in this case towns) should be treated in this way. I do believe that most people from all over the world do not know the town of Vipava. But on the other side I know exactly when I see any kind of small town or even village wherever. So I prefer simply Vipava, Berlin, New York, Moscow and so on. And further on the state is then mentioned onward the article. Names of towns should be alone in the names of the articles. -- XJam [2002.07.23] 2 Tuesday (0).
 * Well, it seems you are in luck - the policy has been discussed again, and the majority opinion now seems to be to use City in normal situations, and City, Country only when needed for disambiguation. Discussion is still ongoing about American and Canadian cities, which might be put in City, State and City, Province as a standard.
 * Cool. What a luck, whah hey Andre. I didn't bet on this :) Futher on a good example for disambiguation might be Springfield. In this 'strange' policy we should write exactly as Springfield, New Hampshire, United States of America. This remainds me on one joke from Alan Ford comic strip, when the members of the most secret group of all groups - the T.N.T group - peculated 'a perfect' US dollar banknote with one exception. They wrote (as stupid as they were) United States of Congo. Ha, ha.

Peterlin, please don't incorporate works of others in Wikipedia unless you have their permission or they are in the public domain. Wikipedia is quite strict on copyright violations. Andre Engels

Hi Peterlin, I see that you originated the Ludwig Boltzmann article. However the text was copied from elsewhere. I wonder if there are other articles that you copied text into. I am trying to track down copyright problems in the math/science biographies. You have made quite a lot of contributions -- terrific! -- I just want to make sure that Wikipedia won't run into copyright problems. You can respond here or on my user talk page. Happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 01:32, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, I was sometimes over-eager contributing to Wikipedia. I would say there is a sentence - or at least a part of sentence describing one fact or another - copied from elsewhere in every article I wrote. I don't believe this is worth bothering. Longer texts copied from other sources should be removed, though. These certainly includes articles on Slavko Avsenik (copied from http://www.clevelandstyle.com/phof_051.htm) and Freising manuscripts (http://www.bsi.si/html/eng/banknotes_coins/commemorative/1000-skof_abraham.html) These might also include Academia operosorum Labacensis, Jacobus Gallus, Mel scale, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, but I cannot say for sure, as I didn't keep any personal track. Google is no help here either, being innundated by the numerous copies of Wikipedia articles. Other articles probably contain shorter passages from elsewhere, but have been during the years re-edited numerous times. A recently added article on the Illyrian provinces also started as a plagiarism, but has been expanded with information from various sources. --Peterlin 12:54, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Pisanski
FYI, trenutno poteka glasovanju o izbrisu članka o prof. Pisanskem. Morda boš želel dodati kaj vzpodbudnega. --romanm (talk) 18:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Treaty of Nissa
Hi, Peterlin; Can you take time to look at the discussion page of Treaty of Nissa. Have a good day. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 18:22, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Slovenia
Pozdravljen, vabljen, da se pridružiš wikiprojektu Slovenija! --Eleassar my talk 00:31, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

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Return of the Untagged Image project
You were kind enough to contribute to the Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

Greetings
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Proposed deletion of Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language

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User talk:Satsun

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. BTW, Great work on the knots articles -- I never thought those twists of string could be so interesting. Cheers! --maveric149

The wikipedia software enables some nifty editing tricks: Thanks for taking to our naming conventions so quickly (it usually takes a bit of time for most new users to get the hang of it). However, it isn't necessary to use a pipe to write knots so that you can have a direct link to the knot article. All you have to write is knots and it will display as knots. I wasn't sure if you referring to the use of pipes to embed your user page or you were talking about the use of the tilda shortcut. You obviously already know about pipes but there is a neat shortcut you can use to sign your name to talk pages: just type three tildas in a row, like this, and it will automatically become Satsun when you preview or save. You can also type four tilas and in addition to the above, the date will also magically appear. If you are totally paranoid you can back up each page you work on - but this isn't necessary. The history of each article shows who has worked on what and RecentChanges is constantly being patrolled by people like me who love to pounce on vandals and repair any temporary harm they do. In addition to this, I select the "watch this article for me" feature and periodically check "My watchlist", go through the histories of the articles I am watching and make sure nobody has vandalized or otherwise damaged the articles I care about. Besides, every few days to a week the entire database of articles is saved and archived -- just in case someone where able to get root access to the server itself and wipe us clean. This hasn't happended yet and isn't likely to happen -- but one should never say never. At most we would all lose a few days work. More neat editing tips at How does one edit a page and more answers to common questions at Help. Need anything beyond that, don't hesitate to ask. --maveric149

It isn't customary to put one's name on the pages one edits. That's what Talk pages and History are for :=)Ortolan88

The pricescan link around an ISBN comes about automagically as a result of the code. There was some discussion awhile back about where it should link to--which site--it used to have something to do with amazon.com, IIRC. KQ

Hum, ISBN thing looks like a bug. Go ahead and report it. --maveric149

Hello, I'm trying to formally document a format for knots in WikiProject Knots. Some knots aren't following the format you started. Your opinion at WikiProject Knots would be greatly appreciated. Samw 04:34, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Images of knots
Hello! Are you still around? Probably not, but here goes anyway...

Could you please help clarify the copyright status of some knot images such as Image:FigureOfEightLoop.jpg or Image:AlpineButterflyKnot.jpg? Their history has been lost, but I believe you uploaded them (at least, you added them to articles, see e.g. ). Can you tell us where these images come from? Did you take them yourselves? Thank you. Lupo 08:16, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the answer! I had tagged all these images I could find as GFDL-presumed, so their status is fine for now, although it would be good if you could change the tags to GFDL-self. Unless, of course, you'd prefer to apply some other free license such as CC-BY-SA to them... Lupo 07:25, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. BTW, nice solubility explanation at alcohol. Cheers! --maveric149

Giordano Bruno (crater) formation
Hi. Do you have any references for your doubts about the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater? --Doradus 02:42, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject
Hi!

I wonder if this guild is anything that you may benefit from, and in that case, feel invited to sign in :)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Conspiracy: The World Conspiracy Guild

Have a good day :)

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Welcome
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. BTW, nice work creating stubs for Dagobah and Analog to digital convertor among other nice edits. Cheers! --maveric149

 * Um, thanks for that very belated welcome. Automated? TomCerul

Just to stick my nose in where it doesn't belong: that welcome above wasn't particularly belated. It was made a mere two days after your first edit, which is generally pretty good. I didn't get a welcome on my page for a good two months after I started editing...

— Asbestos | Talk  08:00, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I've had an account since 2002. They must have lost my stuff. There was a system revamp when I was idle I think. I actually did the major flesh out of the capoeira article way back then. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capoeira&diff=87720&oldid=87636 :)  I was contemplating with surprise just how much of what I wrote is still in here.

Thanks for doing the legwork on the African origins of Capoeira. TomCerul 13:42, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

 * That's cool. When I start getting some real time to edit and work on Wikipedia, I'll make a proper effort myself as well. By the way, are you adding to the Roda article you created? At the moment it's just a dictionary definition, and so might be best at wiktionary, but of course if you're working on it then don't worry. — Asbestos | Talk  14:10, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Nope, there was an link to roda in the capoeira article so I stubbed it. Figured a stub was better than nothing when someone wanted to know what a roda was. I haven't had time to learn the new best practices here. TomCerul 14:13, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Angola
Hi TomCerul — I thought I'd just give you some sources for the notion that Capoeira didn't come only from Angola. ,, , , and  all note the wide mix of slaves coming in from Angola, Congo, Mozambique, Namibia and so on (though, granted, some of them might have taken their information from our own article). Political boundaries weren't as important to the slave trade as tribal populations, and the Bantu, Yorùbá and Dahomean peoples stretched out across the entire region.

Anyway, thanks for your work on making the section on The Game cleaner. I've been looking at that for a long time and had kept meaning to get around to making it readable...

New users and partisan hacks
The user added extreme right-wing talking points to Amazon Rainforest, which I reverted. A month later he added new nonsense, and I reverted it again. In response to that, he vandlised my Talk page. I reverted his vandalism of my talk page, and posted a test message on his page. He then proceeded to post the Libipedia stuff, in which he accused me of "only left wing propanganda, half baked scientific theories, and anti-capitalist hate speech.". He then posted some comments to my Talk page, but at that point I had no interest in engaging an abusive vandal, so I deleted it and posted the last set of comments. As for the comment about "facts", have a look at the nonsense he insists on posting. You would have to be pretty far from "facts" and "reality" to insert "Others argue that the increase in the amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is a good thing, since plant life cannot exsist without it. In most other areas of the earth, the number of trees and forests are actually increasing." If you spout these oil industry/right-wing talking points, either you are getting paid to say them, or you get your news these people who "create their own reality". Anyone who choses to believe the whole "greening earth" idea is both incapable of critical thinking and unwilling to take even the most cursory glance at the literature on the effects of ecosystem level carbon enrichment. Guettarda 15:55, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * My bad, I misread that diff and somehow interpretted it as adding his message to the bottom. Still though, I'd like to invite that guy to support his proposition. TomCerul 17:31, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I may have overreacted, and I agree with your post to the Amazon talk page. I also have no problem with what he posted to the talk page - the article needs work, it's far to "emotional" in its tone.  But I don't indulge people who resort to childishly vandalising my talk page.  Thanks for intervening though - I am probably not in a position to engage him in constructive conversation.  Guettarda 17:44, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * My pleasure :)  TomCerul 17:48, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Metal Storm
Gday TomCerul, I have made some edits on top of your edits at Metal Storm. I'd got the impression that your edits were well thought out, and wanted to take a moment to explain my re-edits (and perhaps check your perspectives). Firstly I think we have a 'confusion' amongst readers about whether this is about Metal Storm 'the technology' or 'the company'. I'm not sure if there is a Wiki rule on this, but since the company owns the technology, and the 'name' then it seems that it rates 'equal' if not 'higher' billing than the tech. I liked your creation of a 'financials' section, which uncluttered the leading paragraph and put the financial (company) part on equal footing with the tech. Furthermore having 'got' the financial bit 'out of the way' the rest of the article could be devoted to a more 'rambling' discussion of the tech. I also loved your Roman Candle analogy, but hope you'll agree that it works very well leading the 'technology' section. I have been remiss in not using the hundred(s) of sources I have about MST to properly reference the article and will do something about that asap. I have left the applications section 'as it stands' for the moment. To my mind though it doesn't neeed to get into a debate about how 'valid' each application is (or how each works in detail) - it seems sufficient to me that there are sources that say that the company is 'looking at' (or has looked at) those angles (and not include any that the company is not considering). Cheers, Tban 23:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Metal Storm vs Point Defence
TomCerul, I'm curious why you removed Metal Storm from the list of examples of point defence. I've re-added it, as the Metal Storm article itself points to this as a possible future use. Please advise :) Kisc 06:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Metal Storm is a cool new technology with many exciting potential applications. Since these applications are still potential, I believe that it isn't appropriate to link to Metal Storm from the wide variety of places it might one day be used.  These links boil down to statements like "Imagine a MS grenade launcher" or "Imagine a MS point defense system". Those remind me too much of the old Slashdot adage "Imagine a beowolf cluster of these". (Imagine a metal storm beowolf cluster of grenade launchers.)  In addition, the MS technology is not a representative example of point defense systems like the Phalanx is. cheersTomCerul (talk) 21:53, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

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