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So that's how many tablespoons?

Sisu West Ranch wrote:

> Just some basic chemistry here.  In any solid salt (not table salt, 
> this refers to the chemists generic term)  the Positive charges from 
> the cations (from the metals) must exactly equal the negitive charges 
> from the anions. If you are feeding a mixture of table salt (NaCl) for 
> the Sodium and Potassium Chloride (KCl) for the Potassium, the amounts 
> of Cl you will feed is fixed by the chemistry.  You feed one atom of 
> negatively charged Cl for each atom of positively charged Na or K.  
> You can't, nor do you have to do anything, to compensate for the 
> differing atomic weights of Na. and K.
>
> For anyone who is interested the numbers follow:
> Na  = 22.991 grams/mole
> K   = 39.096 grams/mole
> Cl   = 35.457 grams/mole
>
> NaCl (table salt)  is:  35.457/(22.991+35.457) x 100 = 60.66 % Cl
> KCl (Potassium chloride) is 35.457/(39.096+35.457) x 100 = 47,56 % Cl
>
> Note: a gram mole is 6.023 x 10^23 atoms of the material.  (10^23 is a 
> short hand for saying add 23 zeros to the number)


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