Figure 3
Reinterpretation of the binary MgSeO4–H2O phase diagram in light of the measured solubility of the enneahydrate at 269 K (filled square), observations of the incongruent melting behaviour of the undecahydrate and the apparent metastability of the heptahydrate at low temperatures. Open circles are measurements reported by Klein (1940) and solid lines are assumed to be the equilibrium liquidi and solidi; the dashed lines depict the previously understood low-T behaviour, which we now interpret as being metastable liquidi. |