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The Clausius-Clapeyron equation describes the phase boundary line (in pressure-temperature phase space) between two phases. To derive it, we start with the Gibbs-Duhem relation: d = SdT + V dP (1)
Now, along the phase boundary, the chemical potentials are equal. Lets suppose we are going from a solid to a liquid (other phase changes follow identically). Then dliquid = dsolid . Then: Sliquid dT + Vliquid dP = Ssolid dT + Vsolid dP Dividing by dT and rearranging yields: Ssolid Sliquid dP = dT Vsolid Vliquid If we now dene L = T S as the latent heat, we get the Clausius-Clapeyron equation: dP L = dT T V 2 (4) (3) (2)
Latent heat describes the amount of heat that must be added to a substance in order to induce a phase transition.