390Microscopic studies of size effects at phase transi tions revealed unusual kinetic features. Under almost stationary conditions, in an ensemble of droplets of an aqueous solution of a mixture of nonvolatile com pounds, multiple repeated processes of evaporationcondensation of droplets of the solution with the for mation of a crystal and subsequent condensation of water on the crystal, which completely recovered the dimensions of droplets, were observed. Solutioncrystal oscillations occurred with a frequency of sev eral oscillations per minute. They were not interrupted until stationary conditions were maintained.The most well known observations of an oscilla tory regime at a phase transition are Liesegang rings described at the end of the 19th century [1]. The first theoretical interpretation of this phenomenon was proposed by Ostwald. The formation of Liesegang ring type structures is usually irreversible in both time and space. A periodic phase transition was described for a lattice model [2]. However, this two dimensional mathematical model is inapplicable to the description of a heterogeneous three component system and can not describe mass transfer between three phases.Pulsations of the temperature and pressure at the evaporation of sessile droplets were described in [3]. The effect appeared in multicomponent, unlimitedly mutual soluble mixtures of volatile components (water-ethanol-methanol). A theoretical interpreta tion proposed by the authors of that work is based on the description of a diffusive water flux through the interface between phases at a given temperature drop with the imposition of a pulsation. The chemical ¶ See the supplemental materials to this article at the website www.jetpletters.ac.ru potentials of the components of the imperfect solution are determined by the concentrations of all sub stances. This relation (equations of state) usually has a quite complex form. Diffuse fluxes generated by the difference between chemical potentials in a real solu tion also depend on the concentrations of all compo nents. This possibly explains why oscillations were observed experimentally only in multicomponent sys tems.The oscillatory regime of nucleation of droplets was observed in counterpropagating fluxes of vapors and falling droplets [4]. In this case, oscillations occur not with individual droplets, but at the condensation of supersaturated vapor.Oscillations described in [3,4] have a common nature with phenomena observed in our experiments. Oscillations occur owing to diffusive fluxes at the interface between phases, where one of the phases is far from the state of an ideal solution.Phase transitions discussed in this work occur under almost stationary conditions and are accompa nied by reversible condensation: evaporation of the liquid phase with simultaneous condensation-solu tion of the crystal phase. The mass of the system changes significantly at multiple transitions from the "crystal" state to the "crystal + solution" state and back in observed oscillations. As far as we know, such a ...