posted 01-26-2004 03:13 PM            

that you are involved in attempts to quantitatively measure the environment. Even if as was said the believed high aluminum measurements might not YET be proved having come from chemtrails, it is enlightening that those measurements are coming from anywhere at all.

I will have to go back and see what a "normal" amount of aluminum would be in ppm for an average expected level in rainfall. I would have to guess it should be reasonably low. Though I am involved in "environmental" science for a living, it is more in the area of metabolism, and I will have to stretch myself a bit with the "chemistry" side of chemtrails.

I did look up a few figures on groundwater contaminant levels as per EPA and though aluminum didn't have an MCL (maximum contaminant level) listing, there was a SMCL (secondary maximum contamination level)
given of .05-0.2 ppm (mg/L). I checked a couple of waste water treatment plants to get a couple of "normal" levels. One in Texas was 0.32ppm just a little over the high end range of EPA's .05-0.2ppm. Another in Virginia was about .180ppm so I assume this range expected might not be abnormal. If you however did get a result back of 2.85ppm as I think you alluded to in your post regarding Dec. 6, 02, then that is of course obviously VERY high it would appear, especially for rain/ice. By the way have you observed or not if the reading you get from ice measurements are higher on average than from rain. It seemed a couple of your high measurements were from ice if I recall. Could those specimens come from higher altitudes, hence perhaps capturing more "metals".

Also I am wondering what form aluminum oxide (if that is what is used) would be found in after interacting with the environment for any amount of time. Will it really be found in dissolved form and is that test useful, or does the testing need to be for total aluminum present? (Anybody stay awake during those inorganic/organic chemistry classes?