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Magnesium, the dominant bivalent cation in natural seawater, exerts a substantial influence on the patterns of ion interactions in this saline medium. Mean activity coefficients of hydrochloric acid in mixtures of this acid with magnesium chloride at four ionic strengths, namelyI=0.1, 0.3809, 0.6729, and 0.8720 mole-kg−1, were obtained from emf measurements of cells without liquid junction at nine temperatures from 5 to 45°C. The three highest ionic strengths correspond to seawater of salinities 20, 35, and 45‰, respectively. In addition, mixtures of HCl, NaCl, and MgCl2 were studied atI=0.6729, the molal ratio of NaCl to MgCl2 being maintained at 7.202 as in natural seawater. The Harned coefficients α1 2 were found to decrease slowly with increase in temperature. The trace activity coefficient of HCl in solutions of MgCl2 as well as in NaCl MgCl2 mixtures was found to be nearly identical with that measured earlier in synthetic seawater of the same ionic strength but containing NaCl, MgCl2, KCl, and CaCl2.
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White, D.R., Robinson, R.A. & Bates, R.G. Activity coefficient of hydrochloric acid in HCl/MgCl2 mixtures and HCl/NaCl/MgCl2 mixtures from 5 to 45°C. J Solution Chem 9, 457–465 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00647736
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