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dovetail

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dovetail, 1
1. A splayed tenon, shaped like a dove’s tail, broader at its end than at its base.
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Because the picture of G demonstrates the characteristic swallow tail behaviour, there is a first-order transition in the system.
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Moreover, the P - [r.sub.+] oscillatory behavior and the classical "swallow tail" characterizing the first-order phase transition are controlled by the parameter [epsilon], instead of the temperature T, which is clearly shown in Figure 1.
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The Flying Cloud was owned by the US company Grinnell, Minturn & Co - better known as the Swallow Tail Line.
Both the systems share the same oscillatory behavior in pressure volume graph and swallow tail behavior in Gibbs free energy temperature (pressure) graph.
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