Abstract The low-pressure stability of clinohumite has been investigated in phase-equilibrium experiments on the reaction forsterite+brucite=clinohumite. The reaction was bracketed between 2.45 and 2.84 GPa at 650C, extending to between 1.37 and 1.57GPa at 850C. At temperatures above the reaction brucite=periclase+vapour, the reaction clinohumite= forsterite + vapour was bracketed between 1.27 and 1.52GPa at 900C, rising to between 1.90 and 2.00GPa at 1000C. The position of the reaction forsterite + brucite=clinohumite is 0.5GPa below the position determined in previous work, the difference arising either from pressure uncertainties in both studies, from enhanced reaction to clinohumite in this study due to the presence of excess brucite in the starting material, or from different concentrations of defects in the two samples. The brackets on the reaction were combined with other measured and estimated thermodynamic data for clinohumite to determine its enthalpy of formation and entropy, in a revised version of the thermodynamic dataset of Holland and Powell (1998). The values obtained were ��Hf=9607.293.05kJmol1, S=445J mol1K1. These data were used to calculate positions of other reactions involving clinohumite. The calculations suggest a larger stability field for clinohumite than implied by the results of previous experimental studies, indicating a need for more high-pressure phase-equilibrium studies to provide better thermodynamic data.