What is a "BINTER"?

What the heck is a BINTER?

The BINTER parameter in the database - more correctly formatted Binter - is a type of interaction parameter between an ion and a neutral molecule in the aqueous phase. This parameter only appears in the AQ thermodynamic framework (not MSE) and is generally replaced by the Pitzer activity model.

So what is it?

Before Pitzer

In the days before the Pitzer activity model was developed, J. Setchenow (Z.Physik.Chem., 4, 117 (1889)) created an activity relationship to model the effect of salts on the