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Dry/Weight Measurements

1/8 of (1 US teaspoon) = 0.616115199 milliliters

1/8 teaspoon is much larger than a pinch or a dash you could take an insulin syringe and fill tube to the .6 ml mark with soda and you would see how much this is and then weigh it. you will need some quality scales accurate to tenth of a gram to do this

Gram Scales

1/10th Gram Scales

www.gramscales.com/index.php?cPath=25

BD Insulin Syringe Scale

In keeping with the latest healthcare guidelines, all BD Ultra-Fine™ Insulin Syringe scales will
change to also include mL (milliliter), the universal liquid measurement, over the next few months.

www.bd.com/us/diabetes/page.aspx?cat=7002&id=63047

thanks charlotte

if the syringe did not work then not good example

when I weigh out 1/8 US teaspoon it is .74 grams

Text on the Internet from a person named Raymond

It is a bit tricky because a teaspoon is a measure of volume. The easiest conversion into a metric volume is 5 ml for a teaspoon and 15 ml for a tablespoon. Our cups (8 ounces = 1/4 of a US quart) are around 225 ml, while Europeans use a "metric cup" which is 1/4 of a litre = 250 ml.

As it happens, the relative density of granulated salt and sugar (which includes the "empty space" between grains) is very close to 1, so that 5 ml of salt and 5 ml of sugar are both equal to 5 grams (roughly 1/6 of an ounce in weight); this makes a tablespoon equal to roughly half-an-ounce (in weight), at 15 grams.

If you want to be super-accurate, you would have to use the more precise value of 1.154 for the relative density of bulk granulated salt, so that 5 ml would weigh 5.77 g.
If you had a block of pure Sodium chloride (NaCl) and managed to carve out a "spoonfull-shaped" piece of exactly 5 ml in volume, it would weigh 10.83 g.

These values are for "dry" salt. Granulated table salt rarely remains pure in a kitchen shaker. It takes up moisture from the atmosphere (especially if it is kept near the stove) and the water molecules find room between the molecules of salt, so that wet table salt has a slightly higher density than dry table salt. So, lets say that, at most, a teaspoon of granulated table salt could weigh as much as 6 g.

1/2 a teaspoon = roughly 3 g (or closer to 2.85 g for extremely dry table salt)
1/4 of a teaspoon = 1.5 g (or 1.42 g)
1/8 of a teaspoon = 0.75 g = 750 mg (or 710 mg if you are using extremely dry salt)

these are some nice calculations, not sure what they explain as we are working with sodium bicarbonate not sodium chloride as your data is based on salt

one US teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate or baking soda weighs 5.9 grams and one eighth of teaspoon weighs .74 grams

so it is simple to either use 1/8th US teaspoon or .74 grams or simply add to protocol 1000 mix until ph is 5.2 or in range 5 to 5.5

Thanks to both Dr. Ron and Charlotte - Testing strips sound like a good idea -

Dr. Ron, the whole
"pinch, dash" etc. spoon sets actually have been calibrated to measurements - the tiniest is 1/64th of a teaspoon, which would be an eighth of an eighth of a teapoon.

But I'm going to get testing strips myself - I got sorta attached to them when doing the CDS calibrating .

Maybe Charlotte Arm and Hammer baking soda measurement in volume and weight is different to ?????? brand.

Charlotte

your results are interesting. it is possible for us both to use 1/8 t and the weights to be different and the ph to be in the target ph range of 5 to 5.5

my 1/8 teaspoon here in usa yielded ph 5.2 and jim's 1/8 teaspoon in dominican yielded ph 5.2

Please let us know what ph your tests show when you get your test strips

the target ph is 5 to 5.5