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Artificial Seawater

Artificial seawater - From Wikipedia - Artificial seawater (or ASW) is a mixture of dissolved mineral salts (and sometimes vitamins) that simulates seawater. Artificial seawater is primarily used in marine biology and marine aquaria, and allows the easy preparation of media appropriate for marine organisms (including algae, bacteria, plants and animals). From a scientific perspective, artificial seawater has the advantage of reproducibility over natural seawater.


Artificial Sea Water composition:

MOLAR

SALT

G/LITER

0.425

sodium chloride

24.6

0.009

potassium chloride

0.67

0.0093

calcium chloride * 2H2O

1.36

0.0255

magnesium sulfate * 7H2O

6.29

0.023

magnesium chloride * 6H2O

4.66

0.002

sodium bicarbonate

0.18

Use a pH meter to bring pH to 8.0

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