> IMHO, it is cooking salt that varies in layers and not sea salt > as per one chemist's opinion. Sea salt is homogenous when > dissolved. ? If cooking salt is pure NaCl then you'd expect that to be the salt that didn't layer. Have you tried varying other factors - for example substituting a resistor for the solution to see if the drift still occurs Joe ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4015/8190 - Release Date: 09/10/14 --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .