In order to elucidate partition behavior of divalent cations between minerals and aqueous chloride solutions under supercritical conditions of fluid phase, we conducted experiments of the simultaneous partitioning of Ni 2+ , Mg 2+ , Co 2+ , Zn 2+ , Fe 2+ , and Mn 2+ between löllingite (FeAs 2 ) or safflorite (CoAs 2 ) and 2 mol/L aqueous chloride solutions under the conditions of 500 and 600°C, 100 MPa. Natural löllingite and safflorite were used as starting materials. The bulk partition coefficient (K PB ) for the cation partition reactions can be expressed as follows:where x MeAs2 indicates the molar fraction of each end-member in the solid phase. m Meaq is the total molar concentration of Me-bearing aqueous species in aqueous chloride solution. For the experiments using löllingite, the order of partition coefficients of divalent cations was:
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