where "o" is used to indicate pure 1-octanol. For the set of organic pollutants studied, they found that there was a large difference between the limiting activity coefficient in pure water and pure 1-octanol, and in turn there was a large difference in the limiting activity coefficient in water-saturated 1-octanol and pure 1-octanol. While this led to a difference in the computed partition coefficient using neat and water-saturated 1-octanol, they did find that the partition coefficients were linearly correlated.