THE PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF SEA WATER 579 



It is inevitable that much of what has been said here about the 

 equihbrium model and the real system will be subject to revision 

 as more data become available. If the tables with tentative 

 formulas for species and solids can induce someone to make 

 experiments to hll the gaps or to prove me wrong, then I feel that 

 this paper has fulfilled some useful purpose. 



Acknowledgements 



I wish to thank my friends Dr. Gustaf Arrhenius and Dr. Edward D. 

 Goldberg for giving me the incentive for this work and for helpful 

 criticism of the manuscript. 



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