@PlanetMillie Hullo. I’d like some recommendations please, but not for stationary…
I want to be able to test water and measure what Ph it is and what minerals it might have in it. Doesn’t need to be massively accurate. Preferably cost effective so I can collect samples from different rivers without having to buy new kits.
#science
#watertesting
@Hinterlands @PlanetMillie Drinking Water Test Kit, 16 IN 1 Water Testing Kits for Drinking Water, Home Water Quality Test 100PCS Lead Test Kit for Hardness PH Chlorine Nitrate Nitrite Iron Copper Manganese Mercury & More https://amzn.eu/d/3pXBinQ
@evilstevie @PlanetMillie This looks great, Evil, thank you! What I’m after is testing water to see what impact the “contents” have on it’s colour, both from rivers and the walls of caves and I think this would cover it?
@Hinterlands @PlanetMillie not sure if you'd be better doing that testing alone or doing something like boiling-off samples too?
@evilstevie @Hinterlands pH is fun though so you should deffo include that, you only need litmus paper for that, buy a pack and have fun testing everything.
@PlanetMillie @evilstevie yeah, I’m interested in more than just the Ph but also want minerals and trace elements.
@Hinterlands @evilstevie is this for your neck of the woods? Minerals would be fun for Devon because your geology is super messed up and mineral content should vary across the county.
@Hinterlands @evilstevie that’s a technical term by the way, I can hear my lecturers wincing at “super messed up”. “Diverse and interesting”, shall we say instead.
@evilstevie @PlanetMillie For different rivers across the country, when I process the photos different colours are coming out when I play around and I want to be able to title the images with their chemical compositions and Ph’s
@Hinterlands @evilstevie I had a look in the store I use but I couldn’t see any cheap or comprehensive water kits: https://www.nhbs.com/1/water-testing. They do a cheap-ish soil kit though and I would assume much of your colour is coming from soil run off so that might be a start? The kit has enough for 10 tests: https://www.nhbs.com/1/soil-chemistry-testing
@Hinterlands @evilstevie I would get a roll/pack of pH paper separately as well as whatever kit you choose. It’s cheap and the pH will tell you a lot about the river/stream for a cheap and simple test. Personally I’d do the pH of everything and then decide which ones you want to do more tests on.
@evilstevie @Hinterlands what is it that you want to find in it? If it’s brown it’s probably farm run off (soil and fertilisers) 😂 so you’ll want a test that picks up nitrates and phosphates.