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Notes · written in the pan they are about

Notes

What the readings did and what we did about them. Each note is printed in the colour of the pan it concerns, and carries that pan's density at the foot of the page.

2026-07-16 · Working the pans · 27.0 °Bé

Why we walk the brine on at 25.7 and not at 26

Half a degree Baumé past saturation is a fortnight of gypsum in the coarse. The reading that decides it is taken at seven in the morning, by hand, with a glass hydrometer.