Hach 5-in-1 Test Strips
Features
- Contains 50 tests
- Wide variety and range of parameters
- Convenient for field use
- Expedited repair and warranty service
- Lifetime technical support
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Overview
The Hach 5-in-1 water quality test strips are ideal for performing semi-quantitative spot-checks or field tests. They are manufactured with a unique reagent pad at the tip, using proven chemistries based on standard reference methods. Simply dip a strip into the sample, wait for color to develop, and compare color on the reagent pad to the color chart on the bottle.
Parameters
- Free Chlorine (0-10 mg/L)
- Total Chlorine (0-10 mg/L)
- Total Hardness (as CaCO3, 0-25 gpg and 0-425 mg/L)
- Total Alkalinity (as CaCO3, 0-240 mg/L)
- pH (6.2 - 8.4)
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 Each bag holds about 3,000 liters of seawater and sits in a cylinder-like cage for stability. The group at UW, made up of professors and students, is controlling carbon dioxide levels in the bags over a nearly three-week period, during which they are looking at the effects of increased acidity on organisms living near the San Juan Islands. 
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“We know that in this place were important commercial and subsistence fisheries that could be at risk from ocean acidification,” said Jeremy Mathis, a NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory researcher and professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. 
 
To understand how ocean acidification affects the North Pacific, NOAA scientists created a mooring network that collects constant in situ data on parameters contributing to acidification. They hope it will reveal seasonal trends and patterns left out by their snapshots.
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[caption id="attachment_38996" align="alignnone" width="940"] HRWC volunteers measure stream velocity across a subsection of Woods Creek, a tributary of the Huron River near Belleville, Michigan. Stream velocity measurements can be combined with water level measurements to calculate stream flow and chemical parameter loads.
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