Thermodynamic Modeling of Multicomponent Rare Earth Nitrates Aqueous Systems

Abstract Solubility constants of rare earth (RE) nitrates crystalline hydrates are determined in a wide temperature range (−30 to 120°C), salts solubilities and phase diagrams of water–RE nitrate systems are calculated. For multicomponent ( n > 5) solutions of RE nitrates the assessment of solution properties as well as phase diagrams are shown to be feasible within experimental uncertainty. In case of mixtures of RE nitrates with similar hydrodynamic radii of ions, the parameters of RE1–RE2 interparticle interaction can be ignored without losing accuracy of thermodynamic modeling.