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melting and boiling ...really equilibrium? [closed]

Why are melting and boiling considered equilibrium processes even though the amount (concentration) of both phases keep changing i.e from solid to liquid and so on?
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Is it possible to have only liquid in a closed container?

I recently read an answer by Aman Rusia for this question: Is a liquid in a container always in equilibrium with its vapour? In it, they say that You can't have a container filled with only ...
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Proof of Dynamic Nature of Equilibrium

Here is how my textbook proves that dissolution of solid in liquid is dynamic in nature. It considers the example of a saturated solution of sugar. It says that, Though the solution is in ...
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Phase Diagrams and Equilibrium

In this link http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch14/phase.php It says (in the latter part ) that for all combinations of Pressure and Temperature along line BC the rate of ...
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Are allotropes of sulfur two different phases?

Monoclinic sulfur and rhombic sulfur are two allotropes of sulfur. In phase equilibria, part of the system that is having distinct boundary, mechanically separable and different chemical or physical ...
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