Abstract
The instrumental technique of use-induced Critical Scattering (PICS), and its use in determining spinodals for the construction of phase diagrams, is briefly described. Like a cloud-chamber or bubble-chamber in, particle physics, PICS exploits the principle of bringing a sample of a mixture into a highly sensitive labile (metastable) condition for a short time only, so as to keep the sample from demixing; but long enough to measure the very special properties which become manifest in such a labile system.
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Gordon, M. (1985). Pulse-Induced Critical Scattering. In: Walsh, D.J., Higgins, J.S., Maconnachie, A. (eds) Polymer Blends and Mixtures. NATO ASI Series, vol 89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5101-3_23
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