 Fixed-particle-number Gibbs minimum (source code)

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= Fixed-particle-number Gibbs minimum
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At imposed <temperature> and <pressure>, with fixed species amounts and only pressure-volume work, increasing total system-plus-reservoir <entropy> is equivalent to decreasing $G=U-TS+pV$. Unconstrained particle exchange requires the reservoir <chemical potentials> to be included; minimizing $G$ over arbitrary particle number is a different problem.

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