Workshop on thermodynamic models and data for pure elements and other endmembers of solutions: Schloβ Ringberg, Feb. 26 to March 3, 1995

The goal of this group was to adopt or develop models to represent the heat capacity of an element or compound in the crystal, liquid, or gaseous states. For the condensed phases, it is a relatively straightforward procedure to treat heat capacity and/or enthalpy data mathematically to generate temperature dependent thermal functions. To represent these same thermal functions by a universal model is not always so easy. It is important to note that the “highest quality” set of thermal functions might not always be compatible with a universal model. Although other groups were discussing transition phenomena and the extrapolation into metastable regions for the condensed phases, we recognised that their deliberations would have a great impact on our proposal.