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This document provides a 7-step tutorial for using the HYDRA and MEDUSA programs to create chemical equilibrium diagrams. In HYDRA, users choose system components and search for associated species and constants. MEDUSA then allows creation of diagrams by specifying diagram type, variables, and component concentrations/activities. Diagrams can be printed or copied for modification and re-creation of the chemical system in MEDUSA.

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This document provides a 7-step tutorial for using the HYDRA and MEDUSA programs to create chemical equilibrium diagrams. In HYDRA, users choose system components and search for associated species and constants. MEDUSA then allows creation of diagrams by specifying diagram type, variables, and component concentrations/activities. Diagrams can be printed or copied for modification and re-creation of the chemical system in MEDUSA.

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Short Tutorial for HYDRA and MEDUSA

7 steps to your first diagram The following gives short instructions to help you get started with using the HYDRA and MEDUSA programs. For better help and full information, please, read the documentation that comes together with the programs upon loading! 1. Start the program HYDRA and choose the components you need for your system by clicking (one by one) the relevant elements in the periodic table and choosing the appropriate component from the menu. (Notes: Always use H+ as a component as we work with aqueous solutions in which autoprotolysis of water will give both H+ and OH. Organic components are found under carbon). 2. The program finds the appropriate complexes and solid phases in your system and the corresponding equilibrium (formation) constants. All you need to do is to click search complexes in database in the FILE-menu. 3. Save the file by clicking save and exit in the FILE-menu . Thereafter click the start MEDUSA. 4. In the RUN-menu in MEDUSA click make a diagram. 5. You can choose the type of diagram in the DIAGRAM-field. You can also choose maximum and minimum values on your axes and choose what to be plotted along the axes (which variable). For each component choose whether the concentration (or activity) should be held constant or varied in the CONCENTRATIONS-field (Note: This information must agree with the chosen diagram type!) and give desired concentration interval (or activity). 6. To create the diagram, click the DIAGRAM-icon. 7. You can print the diagram from the menu in the diagram window: print diagram. The diagram can also be pasted into a WORD document by first choosing IMAGE copy to clipboard in the menu of the diagram window and then choosing paste in the EDITmenu in WORD. To modify the chemical system, click modify chemical system in the RUN-menu in MEDUSA. You can then change components or remove chemical species.

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In HYDRA you choose the components for your system and search the relevant species and their formation constants. With MEDUSA you create diagrams for the equilibrium system you have defined using HYDRA.
INSTALLING HYDRA AND MEDUSA.

The programs MEDUSA and HYDRA are available at:

http://www.kemi.kth.se/medusa

. Save the installation file Eq-Calcs.exe. Download the programs by clicking the icon Run the file in order to install the programs (afterwards you can remove this file). After installation, the programs are available in the group Chemical Diagrams under PROGRAM when you click the -button.

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