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The truth and beauty of chemical potentials

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Date
02/05/2019
Author
Powell, R.
Evans, K.A.
Green, E.C.R.
White, R. W.
Keywords
Chemical potential
Elastic solids
Equilibration volume
Equilibrium thermodynamics
GE Environmental Sciences
QD Chemistry
T-NDAS
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Abstract
This essay in honour of Mike Brown addresses aspects of chemical equilibrium and equilibration in rocks, with a focus on the role that chemical potentials play. Chemical equilibrium is achieved by diffusive attening of chemical potential gradients. The idea of equilibration volume is developed, and the way equilibration volumes may evolve along a pressure-temperature path is discussed. The effect of the environment of an equilibration volume is key to understanding the evolution of the equilibration volume with changing conditions. The likely behaviour of equilibration volumes is used to suggest why preservation of equilibrium mineral assemblages and mineral compositions from metamorphism tends to occur. This line of logic then provides the conceptual support to conventional equilibrium thermodynamic approaches to studying rocks, using, for example, thermobarometry and pseudosections.
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Powell , R , Evans , K A , Green , E C R & White , R W 2019 , ' The truth and beauty of chemical potentials ' , Journal of Metamorphic Geology , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12484
Publication
Journal of Metamorphic Geology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12484
ISSN
0263-4929
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12484
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19877

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