meq/l or dKH: Let's standardize

[DaktariEd]

I'll second that!

I LOVE meq/l !!!!!

LOL!

Ed

 

[Bodine]

Lets not forget ppm.....

This America and I refuse to go "metric"

All kidding aside I use the meq/L.

 

[reeferJ]

Screw metric, this is America

 

[MattM]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nathan:
<STRONG>I vote for meq/l since it's metric (SI (System International))</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Odd, since most Americans use meq/l and most Europeans use dKH.

It's worse in astronomy - telescope apertures and focal lengths are referred to in inches, but eyepiece focal lengths are always in millimeters. So you have a 6" Newtonian with a 25mm eyepeice.

And let's not forget, we buy our milk by the quart, but our Pepsi by the liter.

 

[liquid]

How about we all memorize this table and call it good?

http://www.ozreef.org/reference/alkalinity_conversion.html

Or you could remember:

ppm CaCO3 = 50 x mEq/L
ppm CaCO3 = 17.86 x dKH
dKH = 2.8 x mEq/L

OR you could just download this handy-dandy convert program and program in the above equations so you don't have to remember ANYTHING!

http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/

I use this program all the time at work and it makes doing conversions a piece of cake (not to mention the above coversions as well)!

liquid

 

[Nathan1]

When talking alkalinity there seem to be two standards that people use. Why not let's all conform to one standard. It would be like talking Farenheight and Celcius. Wouldn't it be easier if well standardized this unit of alk measurement?

I vote for meq/l since it's metric (SI (System International))

-Nathan