Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #326

[George Slusarczuk <yurko at warwick_net>]

> 
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 22:10:16 -0500
> From: bickford at black-hole_com (Jay Bickford)
> Subject: Re: George Slusarczuk's Water hardness explanation
> 
> > On  Sun, 14 Jun 1998, George Slusarczuk wrote:
> 
> > Subject: Re: Water hardness (long)
> 
> Snip, snip, snip...
> 
> > P.S. These days all the scientific, governmental, and many hobby
> > publications use parts-per-million units to measure hardness and NOT
> > "degrees", because "degrees" are an imprecise term - which "degree"?.
> > Alkalinity is commonly measured in milli-equivalents per liter.
> 
> This may be a stupid question, but here goes.
> 
> Why doesn't the aquarium hobby industry change to the "ppm" scale in refering to water hardness?  Maybe it would help to avoid some of the confusion.
> 
> >
> >
> > I have tried to keep this as simple as possible, did not use any
> > equations, but not all people can visualize a chemical reaction! Hope
> > that this somewhat historical overview will not be too confusing. More
> > confusion on water hardness we don't need!
> >
> >
> 
> Bravo George!  Your historical overview really helped to clear some things up in my mind and give me a better understanding of this subject.  Thanks for the great explanation. (And I'm not even the one who asked for it.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jay Bickford
> Savage Minnesota.
>

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