Some articles on phase, phases, rich phase:
... of liquids or solids from one thermodynamic phase, to form two coexisting phases ... the oil and the water may mix to form a single thermodynamic phase in which water molecules are surrounded by oil molecules and vice versa ... suddenly cooled to a temperature at which at thermodynamic equilibrium favours an oil-rich phase coexisting with a water-rich phase ...
Famous quotes containing the words phase and/or rich:
“The Indians feel that each stage is crucial and that the child should be allowed to dwell in each for the appropriate period of time so that every aspect of his being can evolve, just as a plant evolves in the proper time and sequence of the seasons. Otherwise, the child never has a chance to master himself in any one phase of his life.”
—Alan Quetone (20th century)
“Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of “style.” But while style—deriving from the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tablets—suggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.”
—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. “Taste: The Story of an Idea,” Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)