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Cavendish Laboratory : Gibbs surface by Maxwell

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<p style='text-align: justify;'>Colour photograph of Maxwell's 1876 model of Gibbs's thermodynamic surface of water. The coordinates are volume, entropy and energy. The pressure is the tangential slope of energy against volume; the temperature energy against entropy. The diagram contains the transition points between the solid, liquid and gaseous phases.</p>

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