milleEquivalent per litre - same abbreviation

"The mEq/L is not a fundamental unit or even an particularly often used one.

It is a unit used in chemical or biological situations and it is dependent on what is in solution, therefore there is no one conversion formula. It is basically a comparison between a solution and a known substance.

The ‘equivalent’ is the equivalent weight. This is defined as being ‘that quantity of one substance that reacts chemically with a given amount of a standard. In particular, the equivalent weight of an acid will react with one mole of hydroxide ions, while the equivalent weight of an oxidising agent will react with one mole of electrons’.

There is no British version of this unit because, I suspect, we tend to talk about moles instead. This seems to be a much more transparent way of describing solutions."

(http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/0103/p01470d.h...

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