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  • noun one-thousandth of an equivalent

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  • A meq is a milliequivalent which is an expression of concentration of substance per liter of solution, calculated by dividing the concentration in milligrams per 100 milliliters by the molecular weight.

    Articles of Health 2008

  • An arterial blood gas on 100 percentoxygen revealed a pH 7.39, pO2 36.8 mm Hg, pCO2 36.8 mm Hg, HCO3 20.6 meq/L.

    Phenazopyridine 2010

  • Portions of the southern boundary of ecoregion 50 roughly correspond to the southernmost extent of lakes with alkalinity values less than 400 meq/l (Omernik and Griffith 1986).

    Ecoregions of Wisconsin (EPA) 2009

  • An analysis of soil nutrients is often expressed in terms of milliequivalents per 100 g of soil (meq/100 g).

    Chapter 3 1996

  • The most productive sites had at least 19-26 cm of well-drained topsoil with at least 3-8% organic matter and an exchangeable potassium of 0.36 meq/100

    Chapter 8 1996

  • C.lloidal organic matter (humus) has C. E.C.of up to 200 meq/100 g.

    Chapter 9 1995

  • However, soils with C. E.C.as low as 4 or 5 meq/100 g can grow irrigated crops provided that sufficient fertilizer is applied and that the interval between irrigations is short.

    Chapter 9 1995

  • The "1: 1" clays such as kaolinite have C. E.C.of 10 to 15 meq/100 g.

    Chapter 9 1995

  • The sum of all the negative charged sites on clay and organic matter in a soil is called the Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) and is expressed as meq/100 g.

    1.1 The role and purpose of irrigation 1994

  • The CEC is expressed in milliequivalents per 100 grams (meq/100g) of soil.

    Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed 2010

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