Fluoride
Calculations
- Optimal daily intake 1 ppm
or 1 mg/day.
Based on drinking a liter(L)
or quart of water/day.
- 1 mg/L
= 1 mg/1,000 ml
- 1 ml water = 1 gm or 1,000 mg
- therefore 1 mg/1,000 gm (water)
or 1 mg/1,000,000 mg (1 ppm)
- ppm = mg/L
or mg/mg (water)
- % solutions and conversion
of ppm to % solutions.
- gm solute/100 ml solvent.
- 10% solution = 10 gm/100 ml
- 0.4% = 0.4 gm or 400 mg/100
ml
- 100 ppm = 100 mg/L = 0.1 gm/L
= .01 gm/100 ml = 0.01%
- 1000 ppm = 1000 mg/L = 1 gm/L
= 0.1 gm/100 ml = 0.1%
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Simple conversion of fluoride ppm to %
solution---___ppm X 0.0001= ___% fluoride in solution.
- Simple conversion of % fluoride in
solution to ppm--___% fluoride X 10,000=____ppm.
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