The thermodynamic database malt

The objectives of the development of the thermodynamic database MALT are described together with its main characteristic features. The database, which contains about 5000 species, also composes software for calculation of chemical equilibria and construction of generalized chemical potential diagrams. Discussion is made on the quality of the thermodynamic data to be used in the advanced software for calculating complex chemical equilibria in multicomponent systems and the importance of the chemical potential diagrams for checking the interconsistency of data in a visual manner is stressed.