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Some of which are probably only a bit stable and so only exist in a mixture

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There’s a metastable phase somewhere out there and change of the most stable solid phase between 4-hydrate and 6.5-hydrate

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What you’re describing are different crystalline phases of pure compounds, but this does not give you new minima, you need some new compound to form for that

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In normal cases you’d see two curves going away from pure compounds downwards to a common minimum, which is eutectic point. It’s generally only vaguely predictable, but always monotonic

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