Digital Scales

I feel like I am going around in a circle.....volume vs. fl oz vs. weight...lions and tigers and bears...OH MY

The chart that you posted gave a weight for volume of water - that was what I was using. The volume of water (1 pint) weighed 471.8 grams. You have to remove 28% of the weight of the water, and add that weight back in of sodium chlorite.

Does that make sense?

This is rather a take off from your previous message about taking a volume of water which has a known weight, and working with that, since you're using the smaller scale - this way, you can make bigger batches, because you're not weighing 100% of the water and the water container.

OK...If I understand things correctly(not saying I do mind you), EACH ingredient has its own property to be considered separately. IE., X amount of Sodium Chlorite to be mixed with X amount of distilled water that when combined will give you X amount of MMS solution. My consideration is the precise gram weight of sodium chlorite to be mixed with the precise volume mass of distilled water. The really tricky part is to precisely measure the volume of distilled water(0.8784 liters) to match 341.6g of sodium chlorite resulting in one liter of MMS solution. It has become undeniably clear to me the only method to obtain a quality product(MMS) is to use precise measurements of the ingredients...hence WEIGHT. So its the piecemeal Tare function water weight technique for me.

In case your curious...here is a nifty conversion scale for you.

www.csgnetwork.com/h2oweightconv.html

Yes, you might be able to get a consistent gram weight for a certain amount of water, but you will still need to remove 28% of the weight of it, and measure the weight of your sodium chlorite to add to the water. Different flake sizes and even the difference between flake and powder SC (or even the difference in percent grade, which is a whole nother topic I haven't broached but which we've discussed somewhere - probably in the technical forum) all mandate that you weight the SC - sorry.

I know there must be a good reason...but if the recipe calls for 341.6 grams of SC to 878.4 grams of distilled water...why would I subtract 28% of the water?

Steve's recipes are already figured out, so you would not subtract additional water.

I just mentioned how to do it if you were not using Steve's recipes.

OK thanks!