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Re: Chemical Powder Calculation Question
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2020, 12:46:14 AM »
From your data, there is no reason to use magnesium chloride hexahydrate.
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Re: Chemical Powder Calculation Question
« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2020, 05:59:33 AM »
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Im not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting it could be completely omitted from the formulation or do you mean that Magnesium Chloride anhydrous would be better suited?

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Re: Chemical Powder Calculation Question
« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2020, 06:05:23 AM »
In your first post, you indicated only: magnesium chloride.
Both salts are on the market.
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Re: Chemical Powder Calculation Question
« Reply #18 on: June 08, 2020, 10:48:54 AM »
Yes, so I picked one. 

For the anhydrous the calculation is 95.211* 20 = 1904.22 / 24.305 = 78mgs vs 167mgs for the hexahydrate.
The difference is minor and the total weight changes to only 4.51g vs 4.6g with the hex.

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Re: Chemical Powder Calculation Question
« Reply #19 on: June 08, 2020, 11:29:42 AM »
Now you must accept that the supplement to the weight of up to 5 g contains some additives that are the company's secret.
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Re: Chemical Powder Calculation Question
« Reply #20 on: June 09, 2020, 07:32:26 AM »
Or that the weights and values are based on a typically sized scoop which was 4.5-4.6g rounded up to 5g. One or the other. ;) 

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Re: Chemical Powder Calculation Question
« Reply #21 on: June 09, 2020, 09:28:59 AM »
Now you must accept that the supplement to the weight of up to 5 g contains some additives that are the company's secret.

This could be true but I would bet lots of my own money it is not.

Or that the weights and values are based on a typically sized scoop which was 4.5-4.6g rounded up to 5g. One or the other. ;)

This could also be true but I would bet lots of my own money it is not.

This company is selling a mixture of 4 things:

sodium bicarbonate
potassium bicarbonate
calcium carbonate
magnesium carbonate

all 4 reagents will be bought to a specification which will not be 100% more likely is >99%. 
They will be weighed out individually and mixed which will have an accuracy of again something like >99% for each weighing.

When you put all that together the most likely assumption is that the 4 raw materials are mixed together and the errors are potentially ~8% combined and 92% of 5g is 4.6g.




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Re: Chemical Powder Calculation Question
« Reply #22 on: June 10, 2020, 11:49:38 PM »
Thanks DrCMC. Sounds like the most plausible and scientific explanation.

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