ABSTRACT
A new method for the determination of the equilibrium composition of complex mixtures is described. The general method, which is based on the minimization of free energy, states the problem with unusual simplicity, avoiding many of the usual difficulties of description and computation. Two specific computation procedures are shown, one using a steepest descent technique applied to a quadratic fit, the other making use of linear programing.
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