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A similar sounding measure of concentration is molarity, M, which is defined as the moles of solute per thousand mililiters of solution. The molarity measure is avoided since the solvent density changes as a function of P-T condition making M a function of P-T.
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As we would see later, one often uses a quantity know as pH that is defined as pH = -log aH +. The activity of H+ ion may be determined by a combination of experimental and theoretical procedure, but as discussed by Pitzer (1995) , “the basic uncertainty of single ion activity remains.”
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Chandrakasan, A. (2008). Electrolyte Solutions and Electrochemistry. In: Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77306-1_12
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