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I know the more general question has been asked here:

Open Database of Phase Diagrams?

And this has a link to slightly more specific question with more answers:

Phase diagram for first 10 elements

And this in turn has led me to Wolfram Alpha which has the best answer I can find so far:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ethanol+phase+diagram

But it's still pretty poor compared to water:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phase_diagram_of_water.svg

Are good phase diagrams really such a rare occurrence? What reference standard exists for industry? Is there a famous book people buy that has all this data in it?

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  • $\begingroup$ @Mithoron, I'm happy ethanol is treated as a common rather than proper noun but sometimes it's useful to have the CH3CH2OH to search by. $\endgroup$
    – AJP
    Commented Oct 13, 2015 at 7:36
  • $\begingroup$ That makes some sense, add it back if you wish. $\endgroup$
    – Mithoron
    Commented Oct 13, 2015 at 10:27
  • $\begingroup$ Actually part of the motivation for my comment was just to add CH3CH2OH to the page for search engine indexing :) I know it probably won't be weighted as highly as if it was in the title but I think it'll be fine now. Thanks for your input! $\endgroup$
    – AJP
    Commented Oct 13, 2015 at 12:41
  • $\begingroup$ Computerizing certainly makes sense... The problem is that there isn't a "phase diagram" markup language. So all phase diagrams would have to be reduced to some common format that a particular program could handle. The "problem" is that such work is "grunt" work. Not much glory in following the parade of elephants with a wheelbarrow and shovel. $\endgroup$
    – MaxW
    Commented Nov 16, 2015 at 1:56

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