Re: Test Results

What about bottled mineral water?

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:05:06 -0500, Rocco Moretti
<roccomoretti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Fantastic Derek wrote:
>> OK. So I tried all three these evening and now have a majority vote so
>> to speak. The API and the EasyTest one both said 0 while the TetraTest
>> said 0.25ppm again. SoI thought I'd try the TetraTest on my tap water
>> and lo and behold it comes up the same colour! Surely I don't have
>> ammonia in my tap water, do I?
>
>You might. If your city uses chloramines in the tap water, you'll have a
>small amount of ammonia (attached to the chlorine). I'm not sure if
>Salicylate recognizes ammonia in the chloramine form, but there is
>always a chance that Tetra adds something to the test reagents that
>frees chloramine ammonia. Note that most dechlors will rip the chlorine
>off the chloramine, leaving free ammonia.
>
>If you have distilled water lying around, you might want to see what the
>TetraTest gives on that.
.

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