Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Apr 2015)

Compilation of Henry's law constants (version 4.0) for water as solvent

  • R. Sander

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-4399-2015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 8
pp. 4399 – 4981

Abstract

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Many atmospheric chemicals occur in the gas phase as well as in liquid cloud droplets and aerosol particles. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the distribution between the phases. According to Henry's law, the equilibrium ratio between the abundances in the gas phase and in the aqueous phase is constant for a dilute solution. Henry's law constants of trace gases of potential importance in environmental chemistry have been collected and converted into a uniform format. The compilation contains 17 350 values of Henry's law constants for 4632 species, collected from 689 references. It is also available at http://www.henrys-law.org.