Mixture rules
A mixture is a substance like any other substance - except it has ingredients. Back on the Quick-start page you can see the Add another ingredient link near the top of the substance screenshot after Synonyms and Uses ...
- Ingredients are pre-existing substances linked to the mixture substance
- Proportions must be exact and sum to 100%
- If you don't also enter proportion ranges for each ingredient the exact proportions will be displayed in the SDS
- The mixture defaults to receiving the chemical groups, exposure limits and target organ toxicity data from each ingredient. Each of those defaults can be changed on a per-ingredient basis.
- Blank text* fields in the mixture will gain concatenated, labelled content copied from the ingredients**
- If an ingredient changes, the mixture changes - and therefore a mixture with an effective SDS should be re-saved in order to regenerate the "next" SDS for the mixture and that new SDS then needs to be made effective.
- If a field which is usually calculated on saving has an existing value it will generally not be re-calculated. Prevent calculation or re-calculation by entering your own values. Exceptions are:
- If a mixture value has been calculated by SharedSDS (ie., from ingredient properties) a "calculation" flag is set to trigger recalculation every time the mixture is saved. Hence, if you manually enter a mixture value you need to change the flag appropriately to prevent the system from adjusting your entry.
- Ozone depleting ingredient >= 0.1% always taints the mixture
Notes:
* Text fields are resizeable on-screen and may contain as much text as desired.
** It is very worthwhile having good ingredient data and generically worded ingredient info so it can be used in multiple mixtures