Talk:Critical point

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Apologies for the edit summary for my latest edit: revert to last version before all the text was deleted (by Robbot) - I meant to say "revert to last version (by Robbot) before all the text was deleted". The user who deleted all the text is 68.227.211.200. -- pne 13:31, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Are you sure about the critical point in chemistry? To me, in thermodynamics, the critical point is the point beyond which there are no separate liquid and gas states of the matter. There's an experiment in which you have a liquid go around the critical point and come back as gas without ever undergoing a phase transition.

If nobody more knowledgeable in thermodynamics contradicts me, I'll edit the definition. David.Monniaux 07:13, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I am not at all happy with the "physics" definition given: There is no reason for having only second-order transitions, and in general it is not only about transitions but rather about special points in phase space where the transition has special features. One should also point out the connection to renormalization group theory, scaling laws, and the universality hypothesis. Ar 16:34, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't this page be removed with a link stuck in one article to the other as there are only 2 articles?? Eraserhead1 00:41, 20 February 2006 (UTC)