“…Pitzer and co-workers developed an ion-interaction model and published a series of papers (Pitzer 1973;Pitzer 1992), which gave a set of expressions for the osmotic coefficients of a solution and the mean activity coefficients of electrolytes in solution. Single ion activity coefficients, which are more convenient to use in solubility calculations, are given in the Harvie and Weare modelling approach (Harvie and Weare, 1980;Harvie et al, 1984). On the basis of the Pitzer approach and its extension the Harvie-Weare (HW) model (denoted hereafter as the Pitzer and HW model), the solubilities of the systems containing bromine were predicted (Meng, 2013;Christov, 2012aChristov, , 2012bChristov, and 2012cChristov, 2011), and these predictions demonstrated that the Pitzer and HW model could be expanded to calculate the solubility of bromine minerals in complex brines accurately.…”