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SPC2014

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Calcite dissolution/precipitation in seawater-freshwater mixing
« on: 04/11/14 05:37 »
I used Phreeqc program to calculate the CaCO3 solubility function of salinity (Cl- concentration) at pCO2=1 atm-closed system (for the dissolution experiment) and at pCO2=10-3.5 atm-open system (for the precipitation experiment) and I got the attached plots. My question is that I understand that the CaCO3 solubility is equal to zero for pure freshwater (s=0) and for pure saltwater (s=1) for the dissolution experiment but this is not the case for the precipitation experiment at s=0 and at s=1 (please see the attached jpeg file). it is true?How is this possible / How I can interpret this?

Thanks a lot in advance
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dlparkhurst

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Re: Calcite dissolution/precipitation in seawater-freshwater mixing
« Reply #1 on: 05/11/14 15:35 »
We discussed this off-line. The main feature of precipitation from all mixtures was caused by the initial condition. The starting solution was in equilibrium with calcite at a pCO2 of 1 atm. Subsequent calculations reduced the pCO2 to 10^-3.5, which caused precipitation in all cases.
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