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    Understanding Nitrate Concentrations: Are These Rural Wells Safe for Drinking?

    Ah that is a good point, it's starting to become a little clearer. So: (0.01 mg NO3- N/L) x (1 mol N / 14000 mg N) x (1 mol NO3- / 1 mol N) x (62000 mg NO3- / 1 mol NO3-) = 0.04 mg NO3-/L Am I understanding this concept correctly?
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    Understanding Nitrate Concentrations: Are These Rural Wells Safe for Drinking?

    But a mg/L is a ppm, at least concerning aqueous solutions. there is 10^6 mg of water in a litre. I think I'm still missing something though. It can't be as easy as just looking at the given values...
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    Understanding Nitrate Concentrations: Are These Rural Wells Safe for Drinking?

    But for every mole of NO3-, there is 1 mole of N... So is there no conversions to be made here? I can just simply look at the values and if they are less than 44.3, they don't exceed the limit?
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    Calculating Water Hardness: Ca2+ & Mg2+

    Homework Statement A sample of water is known to have 190 g/m^3 Ca2+ and 84 g/m^3 Mg2+. What is the hardness of the water in mg CaCO3/L? Homework Equations Hardness = (Ca2+) + (Mg2+) The Attempt at a Solution I need to convert my units into mg CaCO3/L or Normality before summing...
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    Understanding Nitrate Concentrations: Are These Rural Wells Safe for Drinking?

    The question: Nitrate concentrations exceeding 44.3 mg NO3-/L are a concern in drinking water due to the infant disease, methemoglobinemia. Nitrate concentrations near three rural wells were reported as 0.01 mg NO3- N/L, 1.3 mg NO3- N/L, and 20.0mg NO3- N/L. Do any of these three wells...
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    Electric Fields of horizontal sheets

    Homework Statement Two very large horizontal sheets are 4.25 cm apart and carry equal but opposite uniform surface charge densities of magnitude \sigma. You want to use these sheets to hold stationary in the region between them an oil droplet of mass 364 \mug that carries an excess of five...
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    Thermodynamic Processes: Ideal Gas Expansion and Compression

    Thanks guys I have solved the question!
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    Thermodynamic Processes: Ideal Gas Expansion and Compression

    Homework Statement A cylinder with a piston contains 0.250 moles of oxygen at 2.40 * 10^5 Pa and 355K. The oxygen may be treated as an ideal gas. The gas first expands isobarically to twice its original volume. It is then compressed isothermally back to its original volume, and finally it is...
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    Calorimetry Problem: Cooling 90.0 g of Iron in 85.0 g of Water

    Alright Well thanks guys I'm just going to assume my prof entered the wrong value for now.
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    Calorimetry Problem: Cooling 90.0 g of Iron in 85.0 g of Water

    But shouldn't I be yielding a value >100 if I use Q_{\text{water}}+Q_{\text{iron}}=0? You can't just know that it's going to be greater than 100 then add the additional term... Aren't you supposed to test that by using the equation to see if you get over 100? And then if you do you need to take...
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    Calorimetry Problem: Cooling 90.0 g of Iron in 85.0 g of Water

    Homework Statement You cool a 90.0 g slug of red-hot iron (temperature 745 C) by dropping it into an insulated cup of negligible mass containing 85.0 g of water at 20.0 C. Assume no heat exchange with the surroundings. What is the final temperature of the water? Homework Equations...
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    Solve Heat Current Problem at Junction of Copper, Brass & Steel Rods

    Homework Statement Rods of copper, brass, and steel are welded together to form a Y-shaped figure. The cross-sectional area of each rod is 2.00 cm^2. The free end of the copper rod is maintained at 100.0 degrees C, and the free ends of the brass and steel rods at 0.0 degrees C. Assume there is...
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    How to Use Gaussian Elimination to Solve for Vitamin Pills

    Ok so 0<=b2<=5 I've found 6 possible solutions for the equations :D Thanks alot, Dick.
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    How to Use Gaussian Elimination to Solve for Vitamin Pills

    Ok I see. If b3 >= 0 , and say b3 was indeed 0, then b2 would have to be -3 to satisfy the equation. Does this mean b3 should be 3<=b3<=8, and 0<=b1<= 5?
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    How to Use Gaussian Elimination to Solve for Vitamin Pills

    But we have 3 unkowns in 2 equations :s
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