Thread: water testing, and a chemistry lesson
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Old 27-02-2003, 10:46 AM
David Lloyd
 
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Default water testing, and a chemistry lesson
) wrote in message . com...
CO2 + H2O --- H^+ HCO3^-

Adding CO2(acid) will never form the KH (-HCO3), a buffer in this
case.

Boboo. Not right. Some is formed, but _extremely little_ will be
formed in pure water. Enough to ignore it's contribution in any
practical case in a plant tank.

Okay, understood.
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