[alt-photo] Re: Zia standard solutions

[Jacques Kevers]

I 100% agree with Terry on this. I have an university degree, but only a
vague idea of what "molar" really is, and no interest whatsoever to learn
more about it. I am interested in litterature, communication, arts,
creation... not so much in science.
 Percentage, "add water to make ...cc" and the like are concepts that are
perfectly clear to me, and I guess to everyone. The use of specialists'
jargon in a general environment just makes you appearing as some esoteric
club (which happens to regret that there are so few people interested in
what they are doing...).
Best,
Jacques

2010/7/21 Terry King <terryaking at aol.com>

> Dear Eric
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> No one suggested that 'molar' and 'normal' are 'wild out of place
> concepts'.
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> It really would be helpful if Loris or yourself could explain these terms
>  here in terms that I can pass on to a workshop of intelligent adults who
> are neither mathematicians nor chemists. Remember that these people have
> come to make pictures.
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> Can you do that in as succinctly that I can explain percentage solutions,
>  e.g. 'take the amount of the substance in grammes and bring it up to 100 ml
> in water'.
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> Try it twenty words including 'why it matters'.
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> Terry
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