Bibliography of the available data on the solubility of silica in water substance

The following bibliography represents the currently available experimental data for the solubility of silica in water substance as a function of temperature and pressure. These references were compiled by the silica subcommittee of Working Group IV at the 1977 meeting of LAPS in Moscow. The data summarized in these references cover the temperature range of 0° to 900°C at pressures from atmospheric to 1000 mega pascals.

Preliminary examination of the data suggests that a good correlation of the solubility of silica can be obtained from temperature and log specific volume of water (Fig. 1). The available solubility data (log weight percent silica) tend to lie along smooth curves at constant temperature as a function of log specific volume of water. In addition the data appear to be reasonably consistent, such that a single equation can be derived that describes the solubility of quartz from 0° to 900°C at pressures up to 1000 mega pascals.