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6 For feldspar of composition Or55, please answer the following questions using ssss1.At what temperature did this mineral crystallize?As it cools, at what temperature would it reach the solvus and begin to undergo exsolution (unmixing)?What is the composition of the first exsolved component?At 400oC, what is the composition and percentage of the exsolved component? What is the composition and percentage of the host phase?What is the best name for the texture of this feldspar after exsolution has occurred?

7 Explain what is meant by silica undersaturation, silica oversaturation and silica saturation. What modal mineral group is indicative of silica oversaturation? What two modal mineral groups are generally suggestive of silica undersaturation? Using the phase diagram for nepheline‐silica (ssss1), describe in terms of %SiO2 component the compositions that are undersaturated, oversaturated and precisely saturated with respect to SiO2 and the minerals that would form from each during equilibrium crystallization of a melt. Do the same for the system forsterite‐silica in terms of weight %SiO2, noting the mineral that forms from a system that is precisely saturated.