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which appears on the alcohol side of the diagram at the 

 inonient when the temperature passes the critical temperature 

 of methyl-alcohol gradually expands towards the ethane side; 





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its critical point, however, instead of approaching the critical 

 point of ethane, turns away towards the cr-axis, and so the 

 saturation-curve gradually assumes the character of a two- 

 liquid curve ; at a certain moment a small subsidiary curve, 



