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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2008 Jul 2;5(1):508–517. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2008.06.010

Table 6.

Solubility of βTCP and βMgTCP after immersion for 27 months at 25 °C

Mg/(Ca+Mg) (mol.%) Composition of equilibrium solutions
pKsp
Ca (mM) P (mM) Mg (mM) pH
0 5.159 ± 0.057 3.468 ± 0.035 0 ± 0.000 5.87 ± 0.01 28.87 ± 0.05
2.3 3.002 ± 0.017 2.094 ± 0.028 0.06 ± 0.000 5.66 ± 0.01 30.87 ± 0.03
4.9 2.295 ± 0.009 1.645 ± 0.013 0.104 ± 0.000 5.6 ± 0 31.75 ± 0.01
7.3 1.915 ± 0.011 1.41 ± 0.010 0.149 ± 0.002 5.57 ± 0 32.27 ± 0.01
10.1 1.576 ± 0.042 1.217 ± 0.022 0.191 ± 0.004 5.545 ± 0.02 32.77 ± 0.08