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Water Report help

Discussion in 'Brew Science' started by pedicone1211, Apr 7, 2015.

 

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    pedicone1211

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    Posted Apr 7, 2015
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    ajdelange

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    Posted Apr 7, 2015
    No. About the best you can do is take the 100 and assume that half comes from each. Fifty ppm calcium hardness as CaCO3 implies 20 mg/L calcium and 50 mg/L magnesium hardness implies 12.15 mg/L magnesium. The other thing you can do is add a couple of pearls of lye to a few mL of the water. If no precipitate forms then the water contains no (or very little) Mg and you can assume all the hardness is attributable to calcium.
     
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