Dear All,
Don't miss this great photo of Don Hillger.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see
http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Au
Dear All,
The questions for politicians in this letter might interest you:
http://detnews.com/article/20101223/OPINION01/12230337/1008/OPINION01/Letter--Metric-system-key-for-export-success
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see
http://metricationmatte
To all my virtual friends on the list: Have a happy and healthy holiday weekend
(to those so celebrating). May Santa bring you all appropriately metric gifts.
My 500 reprints of Patrick's Article "Metric Measurement in the 21st Century"
were delivered by UPS today at 13:35. I'll begin stuffing envelopes this
weekend, but not in time for delivery to you by reindeer sled before Dec 25.
Gene Mechtly.
Original message
>Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010
I agree with that, Gene. Relative to cooking, I believe moisture content
affects the mass and density more than it affects the volume of most
ingredients
(flour for example). I therefore am not entirely convinced that European
cooking by mass is ALWAYS superior to cooking by volume.
However,
Another important (perhaps dominant) factor is the moisture content.
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>Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:00:25 -0600
>From: "James R. Frysinger"
>Subject: [USMA:49279] RE: Fwd: Re: centimetre or millimetre
>To: "U.S. Metric Association"
>
>No, I think Martin meant "heaped"
I deduced that on his second usage. Another good source for bulk and powder
density:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/resources/bulk_density/material_bulk_density_chart_a.htm
Where I have been able to check values, it is generally pretty good for
industrial powders, but less reliable than USDA da
No, I think Martin meant "heaped" in another sense -- many crystals
stacked randomly atop each other. It's a classic packing problem in
mathematical physics. Packing efficiencies can range from roughly 50 %
to roughly 80 % depending on the shape of the entities packed into a
volume, and whether
Now I understand your prior remark. We use "heaped" to refer specifically to a
brim-fill measure overfilled with a dry ingredient, with the balance in a
roughly conical pile above the brim. I didn't understand why a heaped teaspoon
of sugar would have a different density than a level teaspoon
If you can set your keyboard up to the UK English (and get the £ symbol by
pressing 3), you should be able to get the "µ" symbol on the German
keyboard - I don't remember its exact position, but I noted its existence when
working in Germany a few years ago.
-Original Message-
From: owne
Jim,
The values are rounded quite "liberally." Given their rounding, it really
doesn't matter if a cup is 8 fl oz, 236.6 mL, 237 mL or 240 mL, or a teaspoon
1/48 of one of those cups or 5 mL. Because of their rounding, I recommend
using
the mass associated with the largest volume given, usua
On its website, the USDA can use the HTML entity µ or µ to
make that symbol. I am confident that the USDA can handle that.
I have not tried this, but M$ Windows allows one to redesignate their
keyboard into various languages. I can set mine up to be English, Greek,
German, Spanish, etc. Whethe
If you want to write "µ", you have a number of choices:
1) Get a German keyboard (not always easy in the US or the UK)
2) Type Alt-0181 when using Windows.
3) Go into your favourite word processor and cut-and-paste "µ" from it.
-Original Message-
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owne
AS I said, the value of 0.81 g/mL is for heaped sugar (ie sugar with
interstitial space between the crystals. The individual crystals themselves
(with interstitial space removed) have a density greater than 1 g/mL whch is
why they sink. Next time you put sugar into a cup of tea or coffee, pleas
Dear all:
In Canada, after a brief period of hard conversion, most construction has
reverted to soft conversion, simply because of some need for compatibility with
the huge US market next door.
Wood studs are mostly soft converted imperial dimensioned - a "2x4" becomes a
"39x89". Although mos
Dear Bruce and All,
These references might help. These have errors like no space between number and
unit. In the first one the unit, millimetre, is not even mentioned as it is
assumed that all dimensions on Australian building sites are always in
millimetres (hence no decimals and no vulgar or
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