Re: ion particle ratio

Yes, well I'm finding out a lot of things with CS, especially since having my tests done. The only thing I am disappointed with is they failed to give me a size of particle, the result only told me that the particles failed to pass through a 0.45 micron paper filter, that really bugged me because that was one of my questions I had written down for them, I guess they missed it, pity.

Another thing I found is that one of my ppm meters, which is supposedly pre-calibrated to suit CS, is not worth 2 squirts of goats water as my results are nothing like the meter readings, yes and I know about meters for determining ppm and how bad they are also, but I considered meters would give me some idea of what I am producing....wrong! it give me no idea at all it seems. At the moment I am trying to establish some corelation with another meters' figures, but this is proving difficult also going on my test results.

I read years ago about using a coffee filter to filter out particles, if there are any, and if not then I would have *some* idea of my particle size, just as a simple home method, but I have been told that this is a primitive way of doing things and not worth the trouble, besides, I can't find information that states the micron size of these filters that is very helpful anyway. If I new the micron size of a coffee filter I would still be tempted to give it a go though as then if nothing remains I would have some idea of particle size no matter how primitive and cheap the method is. Perhaps I will just have to get another sample done one day specifically asking for determination of particle size.

Oh, just a point on what dq said, I thought 'surface area' only referred to particles. I've read plenty about 'particle surface area' but nothing about 'ionic surface area'?? Tweet