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In the article "Achieving Absolute Negative Pressures in Liquids: Precipitation Phenomena in Solution" (J. Chem. Ed. 2002, 79, 869) Figure 2 printed incompletely. The accurate representation of Figure 2 is provided below.
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Figure 2. Stage-presentation of the Berthelot's experiment using a 1.8% (w/w) solution of 25,000 polystyrene in acetone. A: Two-phase region at positive pressure (vapor pressure of the solution); cloudiness appears from the bottom, but the bubble is present at the top. B: Transparent, homogeneous solution, recovered by heating. C: Capillary at the filling temperature (T = Tfill); bubble disappears. D: Final point of the prepressurization stage; filled capillary at moderately high positive pressure. E: Phase transition (cloud point) at negative pressure; cloudiness rises from the bottom, no bubble is present (T = Tcp < Tfill). F: Collapse of the metastable liquid at negative pressure, where a small bubble starts to form at the top, while the system is on its way to a totally stable state, at positive pressure (vapor pressure).
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