EQUILIBRIUM OF HETEROGENEOUS SUBSTANCES.
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appearing in any other form or combination, but solely as constituting the gas in question (in a state of purity), we may without loss of generality give to
and
the value zero, or any other arbitrary values. But when the scope of our investigations is not thus limited we may have determined the states of the substance of the gas for which
and
with reference to some other form in which the substance appears, or, if the substance is compound, the states of its components for which
and
may be already determined; so that the constants
and
cannot in general be treated as arbitrary.
We obtain from (255) by differentiation
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(256)
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whence, in virtue of the general relation expressed by (86),
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(257)
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(258)
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(259)
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We may obtain the fundamental equation between
, and
from equations (87), (255), and (257). Eliminating
we have
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and
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and eliminating
, we have the fundamental equation
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(260)
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Differentiating this equation, we obtain
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(261)
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whence, by the general equation (88),
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(262)
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(263)
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(264)
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