.08% BAC convert to mg/l

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - .08% BAC convert to mg/l

Posted: 12/7/2006 1:30:12 PM EDT

I received a gift from a friend from Japan.
He gave me a Alcohol Sensor that tells how intoxacated you are.
Strange gift i know, I don't drink that much, and I don't need a sensor to tell how drunketh I are.

Problem is it reads in MG/L.
I know the DWI is set at .08% BAC then your off the the pokey.
What is .08% BAC converted to mg/l?
thanks

Posted: 12/7/2006 1:32:51 PM EDT

[#1]

www.onlineconversion.com/

OR

www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/

Posted: 12/7/2006 1:35:25 PM EDT

[#2]

Posted: 12/7/2006 1:36:14 PM EDT

[#3]

Show Deej the conversion chart then have him follow you around every time you go drinking.

Posted: 12/7/2006 1:52:07 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Show Deej the conversion chart then have him follow you around every time you go drinking.

i thought about that,
Hell I thought I would start drinking now and see if it works,
after about a half a quart i prolly won't give a damn

Posted: 12/7/2006 1:56:45 PM EDT

[#5]

There is a factor of 10,000 between percent and ppm

(100% = 1,000,000 ppm, obviously)

0.08% x 10,000 is 800ppm

Posted: 12/7/2006 1:57:26 PM EDT

[#6]

That device is the devil dressed in a transistor. My advice to you: avoid it at all costs.

Not kiddie safe story.

Posted: 12/7/2006 2:04:20 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
There is a factor of 10,000 between percent and ppm

(100% = 1,000,000 ppm, obviously)

0.08% x 10,000 is 800ppm

then how to get 800 PPM to MG/L?

Posted: 12/7/2006 2:07:52 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
There is a factor of 10,000 between percent and ppm

(100% = 1,000,000 ppm, obviously)

0.08% x 10,000 is 800ppm

then how to get 800 PPM to MG/L?

Do the opposite.

Divide 800 ppm by 10,000 ppm/% to get 0.08 %

Posted: 12/7/2006 3:02:02 PM EDT

[#9]

it dont read in $
only mg/L

what the hell is mg/L?

thanks

Posted: 12/7/2006 3:03:28 PM EDT

[#10]

Brookstone sells something similar. Yes, I have one.

Posted: 12/7/2006 3:13:15 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Brookstone sells something similar. Yes, I have one.

does in read in mg/L?

Posted: 12/7/2006 3:21:58 PM EDT

[#12]

mg/L is milligrams per liter, assuming alcohol has the same density as water (which it doesn't) there are 1000000mg of water per liter. If .08% of it is alcohol that is .0008*1000000mg/L, or 800mg/L, which the poster above listed as 800 parts per million. There are one million "parts" in each liter, so blah blah blah.

Posted: 12/7/2006 3:28:20 PM EDT

[#13]

crystal clear
thanks

Posted: 12/7/2006 3:30:24 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
mg/L is milligrams per liter, assuming alcohol has the same density as water (which it doesn't) there are 1000000mg of water per liter. If .08% of it is alcohol that is .0008*1000000mg/L, or 800mg/L, which the poster above listed as 800 parts per million. There are one million "parts" in each liter, so blah blah blah.

Just get the molecular weight of Ethyl Alcohol, which is C2H5OH to calculate its density.

Posted: 12/7/2006 7:23:09 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Just get the molecular weight of Ethyl Alcohol, which is C2H5OH to calculate its density.

You can't calculate density from the molecular weight.

Density is a weight per volume calculation. Molecular weight has nothing to do with it.

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