Developing a generalized approach to quantitative thermodynamic description of chemical phenomena within solution phases demanded
improving the denotative system of the key notions and the corresponding chemical thermodynamic formalism. This paper gives
a concise but full account of the results of these investigations. In particular, the specific features of solution substance
partitioning into so-called partial components (and forms assigned to them) are shown, and a system of standardization of
their partial characteristics is presented. This system constructively generalizes the tremendous experience accumulated at
present in the field of chemical thermodynamic modeling of the state of a substance in aqueous solutions (taking into account
the effective principle of locality and partiality of any internal equilibria). The system is applicable to chemical thermodynamic
“structuring” of other multicomponent liquid phases, liquid phase-solid solutions, and heterogeneous systems.
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated fromZhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 275–281, March–April, 1998.
This work was supported by RFFR grant No. 97-05-64250.