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| The solvus line represents the locus of solubility limits for the solid solutions in a multicomponent system. For the copper-silver binary system shown two such lines exist, one for the a-phase and one for the b-phase. When a material of fixed composition is cooled through these lines, the single solid phase breaks up into two phases of the same chemical potential. | |||||||||||
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| From:
Callister,
"Materials Science and Engineering," Wiley (1994) |
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