Phase diagram can be constructed that show the effect of more than two variables on the phase of a substance. Phase diagrams can use other variables in addition to or in place of temperature, pressure and composition, for example the strength of an applied electrical or magnetic field, and they can also involve substances that take on more than just three states of matter. One type of phase diagram plots temperature against the relative concentrations of two substances in a mixture called a "binary phase diagram", as shown at right. Such a mixture can be either a solid solution, eutectic or peritectic,
Quasi-homogeneous polynomial Quasi-homogeneous polynomial In algebra, a multivariate polynomial is quasi-homogeneous or weighted homogeneous, if there exist "r" integers formula_2, called weights of the variables, such that the sum formula_3 is the same for all nonzero terms of "f". This sum "w" is the "weight" or the "degree" of the polynomial. The term "quasi-homogeneous" comes from the fact that a polynomial "f" is quasi-homogeneous if and only if for every formula_5 in any field containing the coefficients. A polynomial formula_6 is quasi-homogeneous with weights formula_2 if and only if is a homogeneous polynomial in the formula_9. In particular, a homogeneous polynomial is