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May 19, 2003 21:24
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Spanish term
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mEq/l
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Spanish to English
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lab report - possible unit of measurement
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| 5 +6 | mEq/l |
Parrot
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| 5 +1 | mEq/l |
DrSantos
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| 4 | milliequivalents per liter |
Ino66 (X)
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mEq/l
milliequivalents per liter.
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mEq/l
milleEquivalent per litre - same abbreviation
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milliequivalents per liter
"The mEq/L is not a fundamental unit or even an particularly often used one.
It is a unit used in chemical or biological situations and it is dependent on what is in solution, therefore there is no one conversion formula. It is basically a comparison between a solution and a known substance.
The ‘equivalent’ is the equivalent weight. This is defined as being ‘that quantity of one substance that reacts chemically with a given amount of a standard. In particular, the equivalent weight of an acid will react with one mole of hydroxide ions, while the equivalent weight of an oxidising agent will react with one mole of electrons’.
There is no British version of this unit because, I suspect, we tend to talk about moles instead. This seems to be a much more transparent way of describing solutions."
(http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/0103/p01470d.h...
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Note added at 2003-05-19 21:32:26 (GMT)
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ee.citadel.edu/civl408/example%20problems/ Meq%20per%20Liter%20Bar%20Graph.pdf
cee.citadel.edu/civl408/notes/ Chemical%20Considerations.pdf
www.medal.org/docs_ch40/doc_ch40.10.html
po.path.med.umich.edu/handbook/abbrev.htm
www.umd.umich.edu/casl/natsci/geology/lectr17.rtf
water.usgs.gov/owq/FieldManual/Chapter6/ section6.6/html/section6.6.7.htm
www.classkids.org/library/ref/liverlabs.htm
It is a unit used in chemical or biological situations and it is dependent on what is in solution, therefore there is no one conversion formula. It is basically a comparison between a solution and a known substance.
The ‘equivalent’ is the equivalent weight. This is defined as being ‘that quantity of one substance that reacts chemically with a given amount of a standard. In particular, the equivalent weight of an acid will react with one mole of hydroxide ions, while the equivalent weight of an oxidising agent will react with one mole of electrons’.
There is no British version of this unit because, I suspect, we tend to talk about moles instead. This seems to be a much more transparent way of describing solutions."
(http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/0103/p01470d.h...
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Note added at 2003-05-19 21:32:26 (GMT)
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ee.citadel.edu/civl408/example%20problems/ Meq%20per%20Liter%20Bar%20Graph.pdf
cee.citadel.edu/civl408/notes/ Chemical%20Considerations.pdf
www.medal.org/docs_ch40/doc_ch40.10.html
po.path.med.umich.edu/handbook/abbrev.htm
www.umd.umich.edu/casl/natsci/geology/lectr17.rtf
water.usgs.gov/owq/FieldManual/Chapter6/ section6.6/html/section6.6.7.htm
www.classkids.org/library/ref/liverlabs.htm
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