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For pure phases at the reference pressure , the Gibbs energy of reaction is . Chemical equilibrium requires , so
The reaction is muscovite dehydration to sanidine, corundum and water; its positive standard entropy of reaction makes the product assemblage favored at high temperature under this constant-property approximation.

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