Mixtures and Mineral Reactions

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Thermodynamic Functions of Solutions

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   Pages 1-13

3. Mixing Models and Activity-Composition Relations

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   Pages 14-36

4. Phase Separation in Solutions

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   Pages 37-56

5. Heterogeneous Chemical Reaction and Equilibrium

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   Pages 57-97

6. Thermodynamic Properties of Selected Mineral Solid Solutions

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   Pages 98-130

7. Exchange Equilibrium and Inter-Crystalline Fractionation

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   Pages 131-165

8. Atomic Ordering in Minerals

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   Pages 166-190

9. Estimation and Extrapolation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Minerals and Solid Solutions

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   Pages 191-215

10. Back Matter

    Pages 216-291

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Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the physicochemical evolution of natural rocks through systematic analysis of the compositional properties and phase relations of their mineral assemblages. This book brings together concepts of classical thermodynamics, solution models, and atomic ordering and interactions that constitute a major basis of such analysis, with appropiate examples of application to subsolidus petrological problems. This book is written for an audience with a senior undergraduate level background in chemistry. Derivations of fundamental thermodynamic relations which are in need of reemphasis and clarification are presented.

• chemistry
• formation
• mineral
• solid solution
• thermodynamics

• Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Jibamitra Ganguly

• Department of Geoloy Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, USA

  Surendra K. Saxena

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