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Results analysis

Posted by tdesilva on 07 Feb 2019 at 04:37 GMT

Could you please explain how the 4.69 multiplier was calculated? I went back to the article cited there by Allen KL et al, but I could not find it there?

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RE: Results analysis

DeeCarter replied to tdesilva on 08 Feb 2019 at 00:29 GMT

This is a figure that was devised by Professor Peter Molan and it accounts for the fact that as the honey diffuses outward from the well it becomes progressively more dilute. I am not sure if Peter ever officially published it (he may have done so in a beekeeping journal, as a lot of his early work was published in this way) or if it just became the accepted standard in the honey world.

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RE: RE: Results analysis

tdesilva replied to DeeCarter on 08 Feb 2019 at 04:07 GMT

Thank you :)

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