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hello dear,
hope to find u in good health .Sir i have a question that why some chemicals directly evaporates without going firstly in liquid state and vice versa.like naphthalene .
  THIS IS NOT MY HAME WORK I M JUST ASKING FOR INFORMATION .
 Regards,
 sheikh mutahir.

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Look at

http://wine1.sb.fsu.edu/chm1045/notes/Forces/Phase/Forces06.htm

http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch14/phase.html

http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c123/phasesdgm.html

and other pages found by searching www.google.com for "phase diagrams" and sublimation

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