By Gregoire Nicolis, G. Dewel, J. W. Turner
Insurance of the XVIIth Solvay convention on Physics, held on the Universit? Libre in Brussels from November 20 to November 24, 1978. offers an account of the various components of physics the place transition to ordered habit happens, and divulges the similarities and adjustments of concerned ideas and methods.
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10) assuming that the reaction lines on '" 3kbar G .... I. 10 Schematic G- T diagrams at 3 kbar and 8 kbar for the AlzSiO s system involving andalusite (A), kyanite (K) and sillimanite (S), from which the aluminosilicate phase diagram can he constructed. (WE 2(d» © Roger Powell 50 Equilibrium Thermodynamics in Petrology where 'YIA -l> 1 when XIA -l> 1 and 'YIA -l> constant when XI A-l> 0, and this is most simply expressed with standard state 1, with: IL~A = G IA and alA = XI A'YIA This is the most commonly used standard state, mainly for end-members of solids, but also for certain end-members of fluids.
I-. 3 A plot of ILIA against In X 1A illustrating standard state 2. know nothing about it as X IA-l> 1 (the chain line). The extension of the Henry's law straight line segment b-e intersects the ILIA-axis at XIA = 1 (or In X 1A 0) at d. The Gibbs energy here can be referred to as GfA' Although GfA = G IA+ RT In hIA(2 ) , we do not know G IA and RT x In h1A(2 ) individually. 6) 22 © Roger Powell Equilibrium Thermodynamics in Petrology To calculate the weight proportions, we need the molecular weight of the olivine (2(40'32)+60'09 = 140,73) and the orthopyroxene (40,32+ 60·09 100,41).
There is a strong correlation between the width of the Raoult's law region and the size of h I A (2 ) ' The more similar are endmembers 1 and 2, the larger are the Raoult's law and Henry's law regions and the smaller is hI A ( 2 ) ' If the two end-members are very similar then h I A ( 2 ) ---+ 1, the intermediate region disappears, the Henry's law and Raoult's law regions coalesce, and we refer to ideal mixing of endmembers 1 and 2. e. e. 'Y2A = 1). From the point of view of performing calculations involving chemical potentials, the assumption of ideal mixing for a phase is often used.