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The experimental observation of a phase transition between two uniaxial nematic liquid-crystalline phases is reported. High-resolution x-ray scattering and ac calorimetric studies on binary mixtures of octyl- and decyloxyphenyl-nitrobenzoyloxy benzoates show evidence of a first-order transition between two nematic phases with different types of short-range smectic order. This transition is observed in the vicinity of the termination of the smectic-Ad-smectic-A₁ phase boundary, in accordance with theoretical predictions.
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Nounesis et al. (1994) studied this question.
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