For each of the aqueous electrolytes, whose acid-base behaviour is described by only one acidic, and only one basic, ionization equilibrium, the electroneutrality equation is rearranged (as described in Appendix) to such a form that the successive-substitution algorithm to which it can give origin always converges to the root of the corresponding equation, i. e., to the hydrogen-ion concentration of the solution it refers to. The converging properties of these algorithms are given a qualitative explanation.
IntroductionRecently, this Journal published a paper of ours(') concerning the interval-bisection method applied to the calculation of the concentration of the hydrogen ion (and the other species) occurring in aqueous solutions of various classes of simple ampholytic electrolytes, i.e., those electrolytes whose acid-base behaviour is described by only one acidic, and only one basic,