wqx/descriptions/ResultWeightBasis.json

Water Quality Exchange (WQX): JSON Schema

{
  "Ash Weight": "The ash that is left over after baking and is the INORGANIC contents of the sample",
  "Ash-Free Dry": "Applies to samples dried at a high temperature (e.g., in a furnace at 550 C) used in soil sediment and tissue weight determination",
  "Bulk Weight": "the (traditional) specific weight of a mixture including the empty spaces between the particulates.",
  "Dead": "Subject deceased, no blood sample; liver sample obtained",
  "Drained Weight": "The weight of the solid portion of the product with the liquid drained ",
  "Dry": "The material dried in a dry oven",
  "Duplicate": "Second additional blood sample successfully obtained from subject",
  "Escaped": "Subject escaped trap or handlers prior to sampling attempt",
  "Freeze-Dried Wt": "The weight after freeze drying.",
  "Gravimetric Dry": "Gravimetric analysis describes a set of methods in analytical chemistry for the quantitative determination of an analyte based on the mass of a solid.",
  "Interstitial": "of, forming, or occupying interstices. an impurity found in the \"pure\" state. living in the spaces between individual sand grains in the soil or aquatic sediments",
  "Lipid": "The Lipid weight of a organism",
  "Not Sampled": "Blood sample not obtained from subject",
  "Recaptured": "Blood sample previously obtained from subject during monitoring activity, no further sampling",
  "Sampled": "Blood sample successfully obtained from subject",
  "Sieved Weight": "The weight after sieving.",
  "TSP": "Total suspended particles (TSP) is an archaic regulatory measure of the mass concentration of particulate matter (PM) in community air. It was defined by the (unintended) size-selectivity of the inlet",
  "Wet": "The wet weight of the material",
  "high wt": "high molecular weight; Soluble, Insoluble/non-water absorbing (\"non-swellable\"), Water absorbing (\"swellable\")",
  "low wt": "low molecular weight; a group of reactive chemoical, hypersensitivity, and direct toxicity"
}