+ It is shown that gas phase data on hydrated Hand OH ions from mass spectrometry can be used to calculate the ionization product for water at high temperature "and at high enough pressure to allow relating these results In this paper the properties of gaseous, water-related ions 3 are used to calculate the ion product for steam. These results appear to be valid at pressures gradually increasing with temperature until the curve can be connected with the directly measured experimental values of Quist 4 at 1073 K .-3 and 0.5 g cm • At lower temperatures one can interpolate between these newly calculated curves at lower density and the equation of Marshall and Franck for the high density region. These interpolated curves, although still somewhat uncertain, should be much more reliable than extrapolations considering only the high-density data. and OH should be almost exactly the same as that for NH3 and HF which can be found, as -(Go-HO/RT), in appropriate tab1es. 9 Thus one has the equilibrium constant K1 for reaction (1).But with increasing pressure of H 2 0 most of these ions are further hydrated K n with equilibrium constants K+ and K. Table 1 gives the values of 8Ho and n n n 88° which are derived from these measured equilibria. Also listed are the n * approximate temperatures T where the equilibria were measured.For our purpose we need the sum of the partial pressures of all hydrates of H+ and the corresponding sum for OHWe writewhere the reasons for these definitions will be apparent later. While, at low pressure only the first few hydrates are significant, under higher pressures 3 most of the ions are highly hydrated. Thus a model is needed for hydration equilibria of indefinite order. The expressions labeled A in Table 1 for n ~ 4 represent quite accurately the measured values for n from 4 through 6 5 3,6-7 for positive ions and through 5 for negative ions.Eventually the rate of reduction of -~H for successive values of n will undoubtedly decrease n -1well below the increment of 1 kcal mol given for expression A. Hence, asan al·ternate model B, this quantity is decreased to 0.8 kcal mol • For anygivenT and P, if models Aand'B give the same result, it should be reliable;if they differ slightly, the result for A should be preferred and reliable; while if they differ somewhat more, the correct result should lie between those for A and B. With increasing difference, i.e., very high order of hydration', the correct result may lie on either side of that for model B which should be better than A. Eventually as P increases, this treatment based on gas phase equilibria will become unsatisfactory and this is indicated by a gross difference between the'results from models A and B as well as by substantial departures of the properties of the steam from the ideal gas equation.Also to be considered is the value of ~c for the successive hydration p equilibria. This quantity was neglected in evaluating the mass spectrometric data over a limited range of temperature for a given n. But we will be extrapolating valu...