OTOOP...Re: SC - cups
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Sat Sep 19 12:10:16 PDT 1998
In a message dated 9/18/98 5:56:32 AM US Mountain Standard Time, troy at asan.com
writes:
>
> In other words, if it is an accepted "given" that a pint of water is a
pound,
>
> and further, that a pint is two cups (in the U.S.A. at any rate), then a
cup
> of water should weigh exactly 8 ounces, which is exactly what I've been
told
> all my life.
Well, I did know that an American gallon of water weighs just over 8.3 lbs. at
sea level and room temperature. I guess the "a pint's a pound" thingy was
just a good rule of thumb for liquids.
Mordonna (by the way, good 4% fresh milk weighs 8.6 lbs. to the gallon at 1300
feet and 36 degrees F)
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