“…Part a of the same Figure is included merely for comparative purposes, since by comparing parts a and b of the same Figure one has an immediate perception of the role of solvent b . Aqueous speciation calculations were conducted on the basis of selected literature values of the Gibbs free energy of formation from the elements at standard state of the various species of interest (Latimer, 1952;Garrels and Christ, 1965;Baes and Mesmer, 1976;Dellien et al, 1976;Vasil'ev et al, 1977;Barner and Scheuerman, 1978;Wagman et al, 1982;Palmer et al, 1987;Brito et al, 1997;Cruywagen et al, 1998), with some assumed values for the Cr oligomer SBD and for [Cr(H 2 O) 3 Cl 3 ] 0 . Speciation calculations at I 0 involved the estimate of individual ionic activity coefficients with the modified Debye-Hückel equation (Helgeson and Kirkham, 1974) Different choices of standard state thermodynamic properties, such as the set of internally consistent values recently proposed by Ball and Nordstrom (1998) do not significantly alter the overall picture.…”