Sunday, April 12, 2009

Homebrew Digest #5536 (April 12, 2009)

HOMEBREW Digest #5536 Sun 12 April 2009


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Contents:
Five Star 5.2 ("A.J deLange")
BMO - Online Alerts for Mosaik Mastercard ("BMO Financial Group")


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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:39:37 -0400
From: "A.J deLange" <ajdel at cox.net>
Subject: Five Star 5.2

Joey C and Calvin have pointed out that the MSDS that comes with 5.2
says it's phosphates so that must mean it's phosphates. Joey asks my
opinions on it. As I have never used it I really shouldn't (and don't)
have any except for those that I voiced in my posts of the previous 2
days i.e. that phosphate is a funny thing to try to buffer a system
that contains phosphate with and that a phosphate buffer at 5.2 isn't
going to be very effective at buffering. If it works it works
regardless of whether I understand it or not. I'm reminded of Roger
Morse writing about Brother Adam's meads. He said he could give lots
of scientific reasons why Brother Adam's techniques were flawed but he
couldn't argue that his meads were anything less than excellent.

Cheers, A.J.


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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:26:14 -0500
From: "BMO Financial Group"<service at bmo.com>
Subject: BMO - Online Alerts for Mosaik Mastercard


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End of HOMEBREW Digest #5536, 04/12/09
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