Solution

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At , the stable sequence is , , . The stable two-solid common tangent lies below the liquid curve. There is no stable liquid interval, although a metastable extrapolated liquid Gibbs free energy can still be drawn.
Figure 1.
Qualitative Gibbs free-energy envelopes above, at and below a binary eutectic
. Original illustrative curves with constructed tangencies. Free-energy units and curvatures are arbitrary, not measured thermodynamic data for bismuth-tin. Details.

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