KOH string test - (Mar/24/2010 )
I just read about the KOH string test...it's strange i have not ever heard of it throughout my long years at school!!!
Anyway, i have KOH pellets and dont know exactly how to make the KOH solution and if i can store the made solution in a plastic container. Anyone know?
-maryjo-
maryjo on Mar 24 2010, 04:06 PM said:
I just read about the KOH string test...it's strange i have not ever heard of it throughout my long years at school!!!
Anyway, i have KOH pellets and dont know exactly how to make the KOH solution and if i can store the made solution in a plastic container. Anyone know?
Anyway, i have KOH pellets and dont know exactly how to make the KOH solution and if i can store the made solution in a plastic container. Anyone know?
Make a 3% solution. We store it in a glass dropper bottle.
http://www.microbiol.org/white.papers/WP.Gram.htm

-fishdoc-
Ok thanks
This is a stupid question, i know, but 3% KOH is 3 grams KOH in 100 mL water?
-maryjo-
maryjo on Mar 24 2010, 04:54 PM said:
Ok thanks 
This is a stupid question, i know, but 3% KOH is 3 grams KOH in 100 mL water?

This is a stupid question, i know, but 3% KOH is 3 grams KOH in 100 mL water?
Correct.
-fishdoc-