From chemistry-request@ccl.net Thu Oct 24 19:21:55 1991
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 18:53:38 EDT
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I have a question about an old fashioned subject. As an undergraduate
in pharmacy, I recall using a "gravimetric factor" in a formula which
included the barometric pressure and temperature to compensate for the
buoyancy of air upon a sample being weighed for quantitative analysis.
As part of some other work, I wish to review this subject and I have not
readily found a recent reference; although I have seen some tables. I
wonder whether this correction is still done and where it is described
in "prose."  Thanks.