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The 83 pages that link to Phase transition, each with the reason it gives.

• Boiling pointNarrower topic: Boiling is a liquid-to-gas transition driven by temperature and pressure.

• WaterNarrower topic: Melting, freezing, evaporation, and condensation determine water’s physical state.

• NucleationNarrower topic: Nucleation is one route by which many first-order phase transitions begin.

• Evaporative coolingNarrower topic: Evaporative cooling relies on a liquid-to-gas phase transition.

• CrystallizationNarrower topic: Crystallization is a transition from a disordered phase into an ordered one.

• Latent heatNarrower topic: Latent heat accompanies transitions between phases while temperature remains constant.

• Spontaneous symmetry breakingNarrower topic: Spontaneous symmetry breaking often characterizes ordered phases appearing at a transition.

• SuperfluidityNarrower topic: Superfluidity emerges when a fluid crosses a phase boundary into a distinct quantum state.

• Critical pointNarrower topic: The liquid–gas transition changes character as its boundary terminates at criticality.

• Curie temperatureNarrower topic: Crossing the Curie temperature is a magnetic phase transition.

• RefrigerantNarrower topic: Evaporation and condensation allow refrigerants to absorb and release large amounts of heat.

• Freezing-point depressionNarrower topic: Freezing-point depression shifts the temperature of the liquid-to-solid transition.

• Order parameterNarrower topic: Order parameters often change sharply or continuously across these transitions.

• Latent heat of vaporizationNarrower topic: Vaporization is the liquid-to-gas phase transition whose energy this quantity measures.

• MetastabilityNarrower topic: Metastability can delay a phase transition beyond the conditions where the new phase is favored.

• Critical temperatureNarrower topic: Critical temperature is defined through a phase transition under stated conditions.

• Universality classNarrower topic: Universality classes most often organize behavior near continuous phase transitions.

• DeliquescenceNarrower topic: Deliquescence changes a solid crystalline phase into an aqueous liquid phase.

• Condensed matter physicsNarrower topic: Sharp changes in order or response are central examples of collective behavior.

• Critical phenomenaNarrower topic: Critical phenomena occur at the continuous boundary between phases.

• EfflorescenceNarrower topic: Water loss can change a hydrate into a different solid phase.

• Supercritical fluidNarrower topic: The liquid–gas transition ceases to be distinct beyond the critical point.

• Finite-size scalingNarrower topic: Finite-size scaling is most often used to study transitions rounded by finite dimensions.

• Joseph BlackNarrower topic: Latent heat describes energy exchanged during phase transitions without a temperature change.

• Liquid crystalNarrower topic: Heating or cooling can create or destroy liquid-crystalline order.

• Enthalpy of vaporizationNarrower topic: Vaporization enthalpy describes one specific phase transition.

• Metastable stateNarrower topic: Many metastable states occur when a phase transition is delayed.

• Phase-change memoryNarrower topic: The memory element stores information through a solid-to-solid structural transition.

• Mantle transition zoneNarrower topic: The zone is defined chiefly by pressure-induced solid-state phase transitions.

• Liquid waterNarrower topic: Melting and boiling mark the boundaries of liquid water’s stable phase.

• Low-temperature physicsNarrower topic: Many defining low-temperature phenomena are phases separated by transitions.

• VaporizationNarrower topic: Vaporization is one direction of a phase transition.

• NeopentaneNarrower topic: Neopentane’s solid undergoes an orientational phase transition before melting.

• Fractional freezingNarrower topic: Fractional freezing uses the liquid-to-solid transition to partition mixture components.

• Hopkinson effectNarrower topic: The underlying loss of magnetic order is a temperature-driven phase transition.

• Trouton's ruleNarrower topic: Vaporization is the phase transition whose entropy change the rule compares.