“…The authors (28) have calculated the Gibbs free energy of mixing of crystals D mix G m by the following equation: (2) where x i is the mole fraction of component i in the mixed crystals, a is the activity, and the indices s, l, and l 0 refer to mixed crystals, and saturated ternary and binary solutions, respectively. In previous studies (26,29,30) we proved the applicability of these equations to the determination of D mix G m for a series of systems in which mixed crystals of both anhydrous salts and crystalline hydrates are formed.…”