Deliquescing salts taking up moisture from the Mars atmosphere: Difference between revisions
Deliquescing salts taking up moisture from the Mars atmosphere (edit)
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You can also get similar eutonic mixtures of three or more different types of salts, which typically have even lower ERH than any of the mixtures of two salts. Salts on Mars could have a mixture of perchlorates, chlorates, sulfates, and chlorides and perhaps nitrates also if present, along with cations of sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. So there are many possibilities to consider here.<ref name="TonerCatling2014"/><ref name="GoughChevrier2014"/>
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===After salt mixtures take up water, they retain it after supercooling, and reduced humidity===
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