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

Table 7.

Negative logarithms of ion products for various phases

	Negative logarithms of ionic activity products Mg/(Ca+Mg) (mol.%)
phase	0	2.3	4.9	7.3	10.1
HAP	105.55±0.32^§§	111.84±0.20^§§	114.46±0.03^§§	116.03±0.04^§	117.58±0.76^§
OCP	47.84±0.11^§	50.35±0.07	51.42±0.01	52.07±0.01	52.71±0.24
DCPD	6.63±0.02	7.26±0.01	7.53±0.00	7.71±0.00	7.88±0.03

^{§ and §§}

indicate saturation and supersaturation with respect to the corresponding phase. Values of 116.65–118.65, 46.9–49.6 and 6.55 have been used for the negative logarithms of solubility products for HAP, OCP and DCPD, respectively, to define saturation and supersaturation.