A liquid or solid phase containing more than one substance, when for convenience one
(or more) substance, which is called the solvent, is treated differently from the
other substances, which are called solutes. When, as is often but not necessarily
the case, the sum of the
mole fractions of solutes is small compared with unity, the solution is called a
dilute solution. A superscript attached to the
symbol for a property of a solution denotes the property in the limit of infinite
dilution.
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 533
(Standard quantities in chemical thermodynamics. Fugacities, activities and equilibrium
constants for pure and mixed phases (IUPAC Recommendations 1994))
on page 535
PAC, 1990, 62, 2167
(Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990))
on page 2214
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
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