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The arguments of Malatesta (J Solution Chem 29:771–779, 2000; Fluid Phase Equil 295:244–248, 2010) exclude the experimental determination of individual ion activity coefficients. I agree that a measurement of single-ion activity coefficients is impossible. But the comment of Malatesta (J Solid State Electrochem (in press), 2011) in the connection with the purely mathematical procedure developed by Ferse and Müller (J Solid State Electrochem (in press), 2011) is senseless because there is no new aspect which is not also given in the paper of Ferse and Müller (J Solid State Electrochem (in press), 2011). All of the mentioned problems are already discussed and clarified in the publication by Ferse and Müller (J Solid State Electrochem (in press), 2011). The purely mathematical method is a possibility to obtain the concentration functions for the individual activity coefficients of the complementary ion species by factorizing a product function of the experimentally accessible concentration dependence of the mean activity coefficients to the required power.
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Ferse, A. Reply to the comment by F. Malatesta on: “Factorizing of a concentration function for the mean activity coefficients of aqueous strong electrolytes into individual functions for ionic species” by A. Ferse and H.-O. Müller. J Solid State Electrochem 15, 2173–2175 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-011-1531-4
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