Solution

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Use the pressure correction to a mineral reaction for the solids, with . The water contribution must instead use its chemical fugacity. For pure solid phases and water vapour treated as an ideal gas, , giving
The last term already accounts for the gas-pressure contribution; adding another gas-volume correction would double count it. The pressure ratio inside the logarithm is dimensionless.
With pressure expressed in bars, the solid correction is . Thus
Using rather than for the solid pressure increment would silently shift the specified one-bar reference.

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