I wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > This fits in with Frank Grimer's notion of "comperature" as the important >> physical variable - in which pressure and temperature should be linked as >> a >> single continuum, and cannot be considered as useful independent >> variables. >> > > Temperature and pressure seem to be independent quantities in phase change > diagrams: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phase-diag2.svg > > If they were the same, I would expect there to be symmetry about the > diagonal. >
I read that too quickly -- you're not saying that Grimer is saying they're the same. And if there were to be reflection, I suppose you'd either have to invert one of the axes in the diagram or consider a diagonal different than one from bottom left to top right. Eric
