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Science 15 December 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4066, pp. 1199 - 1201
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4066.1199
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Gravitational Effects on Concentrations and Partial Pressures in Solutions: A Thermodynamic Analysis

Frank C. Andrews 1

1 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz 95060

Thermodynamic analysis establishes the equilibrium relationships between the concentrations and partial pressures of the components of liquid and gaseous solutions in the presence of a gravitational field. The conditions of equilibrium between a column of gas and gas-saturated water and the conditions of equilibrium governing a model of the distribution of radioactive heat sources in surface rocks are deduced from the theory.


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