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Rolf Sander

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When referring to the compilation of Henry's Law Constants, please cite this publication:

R. Sander: Compilation of Henry's law constants (version 5.0.0) for water as solvent, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 10901-12440 (2023), doi:10.5194/acp-23-10901-2023

The publication from 2023 replaces that from 2015, which is now obsolete. Please do not cite the old paper anymore.

Henry's Law Constants → Inorganic species → Oxygen (O) → oxygen

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CAS RN:7782-44-7
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InChIKey:MYMOFIZGZYHOMD-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Hscp d ln Hs cp / d (1/T) References Type Notes
[mol/(m3Pa)] [K]
1.3×10−5 1500 Burkholder et al. (2019) L 1)
1.3×10−5 1500 Burkholder et al. (2015) L 1)
Clever et al. (2014) L 2)
1.2×10−5 1700 Warneck and Williams (2012) L
1.3×10−5 1500 Sander et al. (2011) L 1)
1.3×10−5 1500 Sander et al. (2006) L 1)
1.3×10−5 1400 Fernández-Prini et al. (2003) L 3)
1.3×10−5 1500 Battino et al. (1983) L
1.3×10−5 1500 Battino (1981) L 1)
1.3×10−5 1500 Wilhelm et al. (1977) L
1.2×10−5 1400 Himmelblau (1960) L 1)
1.2×10−5 1600 Millero et al. (2002a) M 4) 5)
1.2×10−5 1600 Millero et al. (2002b) M 6) 7)
1.3×10−5 1500 Rettich et al. (2000) M 8)
1.3×10−5 1400 Sherwood et al. (1991) M 9)
1.3×10−5 1500 Rettich et al. (1981) M 10)
1.3×10−5 1500 Cosgrove and Walkley (1981) M 11)
1.2×10−5 da Silva et al. (1980) M 12)
1.3×10−5 1400 Cramer (1980) M
1.3×10−5 1400 Benson et al. (1979) M
1.4×10−4 Razumovskii and Zaikov (1971) M 13)
1.1×10−5 Power and Stegall (1970) M 14)
1.3×10−5 1500 Murray and Riley (1969) M 15)
1.2×10−5 1200 Shoor et al. (1969) M 16)
1.2×10−5 1600 Carpenter (1966) M 17)
1.3×10−5 1500 Morrison and Billett (1952) M 18)
1.2×10−5 Orcutt and Seevers (1937a) M
1.3×10−5 1500 Fox (1909) M
1.2×10−5 1700 Geffcken (1904) M
1.3×10−5 1400 Winkler (1891b) M 19)
1.3×10−5 1400 Bohr and Bock (1891) M
1.2×10−5 1800 Timofejew (1890) M
1.2×10−5 1200 Bunsen (1855a) M
1.2×10−5 1600 Wauchope and Haque (1972) V
1.2×10−5 1600 Wauchope and Haque (1972) V
1.3×10−5 1500 Wauchope and Haque (1972) V
1.3×10−5 Pierotti (1965) T
1.4×10−5 Nunn (1958) C 12)
7.9×10−6 Hayer et al. (2022) Q 20)
1.3×10−5 1500 Yaws et al. (1999) ? 21)
1.1×10−5 Abraham and Weathersby (1994) ? 21)
1.2×10−5 1500 Dean and Lange (1999) ? 22) 23)
1.3×10−5 Seinfeld (1986) ? 21)
1.3×10−4 Smith and Bomberger (1980) ? 24)

Data

The first column contains Henry's law solubility constant Hscp at the reference temperature of 298.15 K.
The second column contains the temperature dependence d ln Hs cp / d (1/T), also at the reference temperature.

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Type

Table entries are sorted according to reliability of the data, listing the most reliable type first: L) literature review, M) measured, V) VP/AS = vapor pressure/aqueous solubility, R) recalculation, T) thermodynamical calculation, X) original paper not available, C) citation, Q) QSPR, E) estimate, ?) unknown, W) wrong. See Section 3.1 of Sander (2023) for further details.

Notes

1) A detailed temperature dependence with more than one parameter is available in the original publication. Here, only the temperature dependence at 298.15 K according to the van 't Hoff equation is presented.
2) Clever et al. (2014) recommend the data from Rettich et al. (2000).
3) The vapor pressure for water from Wagner and Pruss (1993) was used to calculate Hs.
4) The data from Millero et al. (2002a) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −130.91491 +6700.12242/T +17.04684 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
5) Almost the same data were also published in Millero et al. (2002b).
6) The data from Millero et al. (2002b) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −118.73105 +6163.97787/T +15.22401 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
7) Almost the same data were also published in Millero et al. (2002a).
8) The data from Rettich et al. (2000) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −179.13831 +8707.17767/T +24.33473 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
9) The data from Sherwood et al. (1991) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −197.67462 +9515.09306/T +27.11204 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
10) The data from Rettich et al. (1981) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −178.21340 +8672.23354/T +24.19307 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
11) Measured at high temperature and extrapolated to T⊖ = 298.15 K.
12) Value at T = 293 K.
13) Value at T = 273 K.
14) Value at T = 310 K.
15) The data from Murray and Riley (1969) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −180.22078 +8760.50130/T +24.49289 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
16) The data from Shoor et al. (1969) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −91.44799 +4548.67245/T +11.38821 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
17) The data from Carpenter (1966) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −130.04464 +6687.45227/T +16.90114 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
18) The data from Morrison and Billett (1952) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −167.89288 +8254.02144/T +22.62741 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
19) The data from Winkler (1891b) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −155.30315 +7638.78869/T +20.77945 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
20) Calculated using machine learning matrix completion methods (MCMs).
21) Several references are given in the list of Henry's law constants but not assigned to specific species.
22) The data from Dean and Lange (1999) were fitted to the three-parameter equation: Hscp= exp( −161.84252 +7966.66767/T +21.73409 ln(T)) mol m−3 Pa−1, with T in K.
23) The partial pressure of water vapor (needed to convert some Henry's law constants) was calculated using the formula given by Buck (1981). The quantities A and α from Dean and Lange (1999) were assumed to be identical.
24) Value at "room temperature".

The numbers of the notes are the same as in Sander (2023). References cited in the notes can be found here.

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