Exercise 5

If a water is oversaturated with respect to calcite such that SIcalcite = 0.36 and the activity of CO32– = 2.44 × 10–5, what is the degree of fluorite saturation if the activity of F– = 2.69 × 10–4? Use log Kcalcite = –8.48 and log Kfluorite = –10.6.

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