SC - Apples Galore!
LrdRas@aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Sat Sep 12 17:26:21 PDT 1998
> Hokay, let's go at this one more time. Liquids can be measured by volume,
> because they tend to fill any container without leaving air pockets. One
> liquid ounce of water is the same as one liquid ounce of cream by volume,
> however they are not the same by weight. Dry measure is by weight. One dry
> ounce of corn starch does not displace the same volume as one dry ounce of
> corn meal, but they weigh the same.
> BUT if one says 1 cup of anything, he uses a liquid measure, a measure of
> volume. Even if it would be more accurate of him to have said 8 ounces, he
> said one cup. So if I follow his recipe and it says 1 cup, I use a measuring
> cup, not a scale. There is no equivalent measure of weight.
And, that is what most people don't understand. The pints a pound the world
around only refers to water (and only at standard pressure and temperature....but
let's not go there). Only something with the exact same density/weight/etc. as
water would be the rule here.
>
>
> I wonder if Gallileo had this much trouble explaining about how both bocci
> balls fell at the same rate?
Probably. But don't push it too far. Remeber what happened to alot of
scientists in those days.
>
>
> I ain't even gonna try to explain how we have over two years until the
> millennium.
Yes, midnight Jan 1, 2001. It's crazy when you realize how few people know
that.Brenna
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