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Past exam of the year 2 of the earth sciences (geology) course of the University of Oxford 2025 Paper 3 9 b Solution by
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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, , givingThe 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.
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