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Old 01-14-2011, 02:12 AM
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Originally Posted by wolf_bluejay View Post
The chemist in me really really cringed at this. Saturating the salt water mix is bad idea.
This would work IF we were only using one salt, but the mix is just that, a mix. All the different chemicals that make up our fairly expensive salt do not saturate at the same levels.
This saturation is used sometimes to purify (removed unwanted salts) in many production chemicals. The NaCl would be almost the highest solubility. So you end up with just mostly NaCl and almost all the calcium and trace minerals would be what would precipitate out of solution.
So how would you make a good solution that could be handled ?
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