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KEDWEI^I/ :• ANALYSIS' OP A BRINE 



the basic radicles as they are arranged in the table of reacting 

 values, the approximate percentages of the principal salts could 

 be easily calculated because the chloride represents practically 

 all the acidic radicles. 



TABLE I 

 Chemical Analysis op Water prom Ligonier Well 



Grams per liter 



Silica 



Iron 



Aluminum 



Titanium 



Manganese 



Calcium 



Strontium 



Barium 



Magnesium 



Lead 



Bismuth 



Sodium 



Potassium 



Carbonate radicle. . 

 Bicarbonate radicle. 

 Phosphate radicle . . 



Chloride radicle 



Sulphate radicle 



Nitrate radicle 



Bromide radicle 



Iodide radicle 



Radium" 



Sum 



0.008 



0.084 



0.057 



None 



0.014 



8.68 



0.68 



0.13 



1.42 



None 



None 



30.13 

 0.63 

 None 

 None 

 None 

 67.14 

 0.033 

 Trace 

 None 

 0.022 

 No appreciable quantity de- 

 tected by gold-leaf electro- 

 scope 



109.028 



T-" lids, converting Al to AI2O3 and Fe to FeaOs 109 . 114 



SpecJ^ gravity at 23.4° C i .0777 



Temperature of water at point of entrance into well, 67.3° C.^ 

 The brine was slightly acid to methyl red and possessed a "stale" odor. 

 " Determined by Dr. L. I. Shaw, Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C. 

 * Estimated for 6,184 feet from a series of temperature measurements made from 

 depths of 100 to 6,000 feet by Mr. C. E. Van Orstrand, U. S. Geological Survey. 



A comparison of the analysis of the brine with that of an 

 average analysis of sea water- shows that this brine is over three 



2 Clarke, F. W. The data of geochemistry, U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 695: 123. 

 1920. 



