http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_craton
First time I've seen the use of SI prefixes for years. I think Ga means Giga
Annum.
Mike Payne
Local preservation of 3.6-3.0 Ga gneisses and widespread isotopic evidence for
crust of this age incorporated into younger plutons indicates that the Wyomi
The SI symbol for what some call the metric ton is 1000 kg or 1 Mg, the
latter pronounced "megagram, not "tonne."
The "tonne" cannot be SI for many reasons.
Stan Jakuba
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Hooper"
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: 09 Sep 26, Saturday 10:58
Subject:
To add to the 'wrong list' - I've seen 'mt' being used for 'metre' (in Portugal
and Spain)
> From: j...@frewston.plus.com
> To: usma@colostate.edu
> Subject: [USMA:45903] Re: Greenhouse Gas Reporting
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:33:35 +0100
>
>
> I have seen mt used as an abreviation of 'metric
Obviously the reason they have such little mass is that the air stone is
not included. Adding a stone would have raised the mass another 6350 g,
old chap.
Jim
br...@bjwhite.net wrote:
I was in Petco the other day and happened upon these aquariums. They
must have been state of the art in l
That was a letter to the EPA and I blind carbon copied this mailing
list.
I have seen mt used as an abreviation of 'metric tonne' Still wrong.
John F-L
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Hooper"
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: [USMA:45901] Re: Greenhouse Gas Reporting
On Sep 26 , at 9:16 AM, Jason D
On Sep 26 , at 10:07 AM, Jason D Darfus wrote:
There is no mistaking the writing of 25 000 metric tons of CO2
equivalent as "25 GgCO2e".
Yes there is.
SI does not permit the attaching of qualifiers to the unit of a
measurement. The qualifier belongs with the name of the measured
quan
The symbol mt (militon) is the same as a kilogram and could possibly
be interpreted as such (oops!)
On 23 Sep 2009, at 13:00, John M. Steele wrote:
The EPA will require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions beginning
2010 from major sources, which are those emitting over 25000 metric
tons
Someone recently posted to the US Metric Association mailing list a
reference to the EPA's use of 'mt' to apparently mean "metric ton". I
must point out that the SI/metric system does not use abbreviations,
but rather symbols. Symbols are used because of the global scope of
the measurem
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So what, I hear you chorus. Who cares that Geelong has won the title
as the Australian Rules football championship? However, this bragging
is not the purpose of this email.
The ground that the football game is played on is slightly variable in
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On Sep 26 , at 9:16 AM, Jason D Darfus wrote,
regarding reports on emissions of greenhouse gases:
The symbol mt (militon) is the same as a kilogram and could possibly
be interpreted as such (oops!)
Quite right!
Actually, it not only COULD be, but actually SHOULD be interpreted to
mean "m
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