Solution

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The fugacity coefficient gives . Keep the solid pressure correction at the actual ; only the water activity uses the fugacity. Thus
The decrease from part (c) follows because lowers the chemical potential of the water product. All logarithms in these thermodynamic formulae are natural logarithms.

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