Revised equation and table for determining the freezing point depression of H2O-Nacl solutions

Salinities of H[sub 2]O-salt inclusions are most often determined by measuring the melting temperature of ice in the inclusion and then referring this value to an equation or table describing the relationship between salinity and freezing-point depression. Generally, data for the system H[sub 2]O-NaCl are used to determine an NaCl-equivalent salinity, owing to lack of information concerning the salts (or other electrolytes) actually contributing to the freezing-point depression. The equation most often used to determine the salinity of H[sub 2]O-salt inclusions from freezing measurements is that of Potter et al (1978), which is based on a regression of data available in the literature at that time. More recently, Hall et al (1988) experimentally redetermined the ice-melting temperatures of H[sub 2]O-NaCl-KCl solutions having compositions ranging from pure water to the ternary eutectic and to each of the two binary (H[sub 2]O-NaCl and H[sub 2]O-KCl) eutectics.