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The thermodynamic treatment of nonuniform systems of Cahn and Hilliard is shown to be equivalent to the self-consistent thermodynamic formalism of Hart. All parameters of the two treatments have been rigorously related and key equations have been shown to be equivalent.
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John W. Cahn (1959) studied this question.
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