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The distinguishing characteristic of a phase transition is an abrupt change in one or more physical properties... way that it can be brought past a phase transition without undergoing a phase transition... These include the ferromagnetic phase transition in materials such as... order phase transition of melting point... we may speak of one phase in a phase transition as being more symmetrical than the other... Its actual value depends on the type of phase transition we are considering... match for the critical exponents of the ferromagnetic phase transition in uniaxial magnets... the thermodynamic properties of a system near a phase transition depend only on a small number of features... at a phase transition one may observe... of a continuous phase transition split into smaller...

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