by Guest » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:17 pm
1 degree of hardness = 17.86 ppm CaCO3
1 degree of hardness is defined as 10 mg/L of CaO, whereas the US ppm system is based on CaCO3. 10 mg CaO and 17.86 mg CaCO3 contain the same amount of calcium.
A rather math intensive derivation is given at
www*thekrib*com/Plants/CO2/hardness-larryfrank*html
(replace all the "*" with ".", I had to trick the censor that doesn't want me posting links.)