Talk:Solidus (chemistry)

Neutral state?

"...if a gap exists between the solidus and liquidus, then within that gap, the substance is not stable as either a solid or a liquid.
Anyone know any examples of this that would improve the article? --Ifrit 14:18, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Yep, olivine. I've added it to the article. —Lowellian (reply) 04:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

disambiguation, common sense

I suspect most literate people seeing the word "solidus" think of the punctuation mark, but at any rate:

• the science of chemistry is new; it's only been around for a few centuries;
• "solidus" smells like a very ancient word;
• before I moved this page from solidus to solidus (chemistry), and then deleted the new redirect and moved solidus (disambiguation) to solidus, a rather large number of links to solidus were intended to link to the article about the coin, which is titled solidus (coin), and another fairly large number of links to solidus were intended for the punctuation mark.

So some common sense is needed; one must guard against déformation professionnelle. Michael Hardy 00:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

convection currents can "straddle the solidus" ?

Inexpertly, convection currents (e.g. earth's Mantle) involve hot rising, and cold sinking, currents. Since the two currents are at different temperatures, at the same pressure/depth, the hotter rising current could be a liquid or partial melt, even as the colder sinking current could be a partial melt or fully frozen. 66.235.38.214 (talk) 21:00, 10 October 2012 (UTC)