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BALANCE - model for calculating mass transfer for geochemical reactions in ground water
BALANCE Categories: hydrogeochemical models
BALANCE Overview
BALANCE is a USGS computer program for calculating mass transfer for geochemical reactions in ground water. BALANCE is designed to help define and quantify chemical
reactions between ground water and minerals. Data required to run BALANCE are: (1) the chemical compositions of two water samples, generally assumed to represent points along a flow path, and (2) the chemical
compositions of a set of minerals, organic substances, or gases, which we will call phases, selected as the reactants or products in the system. Implicit in this treatment is the assumption that only these selected
phases participate in the chemical reactions that determine the composition of the final water.
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