Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review some of the models of electrolyte solutions which are currently used to calculate chemical equilibrium between minerals and natural waters.
After a brief description of the ion association approach to the calculation of activity coefficients of aqueous species, we introduce Pitzer’s ion interaction model and emphasize its links with the ion pairing phenomenology. The capacity of this model to calculate the thermodynamic properties of complex electrolyte solutions at high concentration is illustrated by two examples of mineral formation in salted lakes.
The last part of the paper addresses the chemistry of metamorphic fluids. It is shown that because of the decrease of the dielectric constant of water, the aqueous ionic species tend to associate into neutral complexes. The description of such fluids may thus be simpler than that for the earth surface conditions.
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Monnin, C., Schott, J. (1987). Chemical Equilibrium between Minerals and Natural Waters. In: Bellissent-Funel, MC., Neilson, G.W. (eds) The Physics and Chemistry of Aqueous Ionic Solutions. NATO ASI Series, vol 205. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3911-0_20
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