I am an anesthetist in Liberia and we process some equipment with bleach for disinfection. The CDC recommends 5.25% solution for this, but the solution we have here (supposedly) is 18%. I can do the math to make a 5.25% soln, but we have no actual docs that say it's 18% and there is some question whether the manufacturer is watering it down. How can I determine approx concentration? I have access to basic lab reagents (of a medical lab), some biological staining dyes (meth blue, indigo carmine, safranin, etc) and fairly accurate measuring equipment, but it's been a long time since I've taken quantitative chem. Any suggestions?
2007-04-16
08:54:13
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tommeltj
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