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  • From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Blueberries in Paradise: Farmer tweaks soil to successfully
  • Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:05:48 -0700

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That was pretty cool, and I’m happy for the farmer and for blueberry lovers in Utah.

 

As a biochemist, though, I’ve been getting a bit annoyed at some reporting I’ve seen lately.  Here, “removing the calcium and magnesium - referred to as carbonates.”  Wouldn’t it seem sensible to someone who’s taken high school chemistry that carbonates should contain, I don’t know, some carbon?  And that calcium and magnesium per se would not, and exist in forms other than calcite and magnesite?  I understand in this specific case he was removing Calcium and Magnesium carbonates, but the inference that, therefore, Ca and Mg are “referred to as carbonates” I’m sure was  universally accepted as blindly as it was assumed and reported.  I think the public hears sciencey or mathy talk and goes, “oh, I don’t understand those things, but I learned something now – carbonate means calcium or magnesium.  So, let’s see, milk is a good source of healthy carbonates;” or the brain just shuts off altogether when it hears about somethingates.  

 

Yes.  I see I’m testy.  Will stop complaining now and drink my coffee.  I take it black, no creamer, so no carbonates for me this morning….

 

~ Stephen

 

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Brungardt, Sam
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:00 AM
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Subject: [NAFEX] Blueberries in Paradise: Farmer tweaks soil to successfully

 

Blueberries in Paradise: Farmer tweaks soil to successfully ...
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Six different varieties have been planted over the past four years, with the first group just now reaching full maturity for fruit production, he said. ...
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