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(1 fluid pint = 28.800 cu.in.) (1 dry pint = 33.600 cu.in.)

September 23 2002 at 5:29 PM
xcole 

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Martin,

Regarding your question of August 23rd.

Firstly, which volume do you wish to get rid of, and
which volume do you wish to keep.

1 fl.pt. = 28.800 cu.in.
1 fl.pt. = 1 avdp.lb. of wine
1 fl.pt. = 1 1/24 avdp.lb. d. water @ max.dens. 39.2 F.
1 fl.pt. = 6/7 dry pint
1 dry pt. = 33.600 cu.in.
1 dry pt. = 1 avdp.lb. of wheat
1 dry pt. = 1 31/144 avdp.lb. distilled water @max.dens
1 dry pt. = 7/6 fluid pint

Secondly, what property are you referring to.

U.S. 100 proof = 50% volume distilled ethyl alcohol
U.S. 100 proof = 42.259% weight distilled ethyl alcohol
U.K. 100 proof = 57.143% volume distilled ethyl alcohol
U.K. 100 proof = 48.843% weight distilled ethyl alcohol

If you need help framing your question, have a look at
site:

http://www.weights-and-measures.com

And topics:

Common Fluid Measure & Common Dry Measure
Proof-Spirit

 
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Re: (1 fluid pint = 28.800 cu.in.) (1 dry pint = 33.600 cu.in.)

September 23 2002, 6:30 PM 

Why do you keep posting this? What are you talking about?

 
 
martin

Re: (1 fluid pint = 28.800 cu.in.) (1 dry pint = 33.600 cu.in.)

September 23 2002, 10:37 PM 

I am going to do a rare thing - for once I will support the BWMA in order to put your questions into perspective.

The BWMA was founded towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign to oppose the infiltration of British weights and measures by American weighs and measures bearing the same name but having a different value.

You do not seem to understand that in the United Kingdom there is only one pint - the Imperial Pint (approx 568 ml). The use of any other pint was declared illegal during the reign of George IV. Ther long list of pints in the reference that you keep on producing is the reason why the UK settled on using one pint only.

I have also checked the one reference that you seem to keep on refering to - while it is interesting is is very US biased and yet it omits a whole raft of US measures, not least of which is the Vara, which is the official unit of length in Texas when measuring land.


 
 
BWMA

Re: (1 fluid pint = 28.800 cu.in.) (1 dry pint = 33.600 cu.in.)

September 23 2002, 10:45 PM 

"I am going to do a rare thing - for once I will support the BWMA in order to put your questions into perspective."

Uh, what?

 
 
BWMA

Re: (1 fluid pint = 28.800 cu.in.) (1 dry pint = 33.600 cu.in.)

September 23 2002, 10:48 PM 

I've come to my senses. My understanding is that BWMA was set up to oppose the metric system. However, Martin's alternative explanations of BWMA's founding could be true. Unfortunately, a lot of the historical records were destroyed in the 1921 fire.

 
 
Rotclar

Re: (1 fluid pint = 28.800 cu.in.) (1 dry pint = 33.600 cu.in.)

September 24 2002, 2:40 AM 

Saying that the Vara is an 'American' unit is a bit disingenuous.

It's used only in Texas, and is in fact a traditional Spanish unit. It is the official measure of land area because land records had been measured in Spanish units well before Texas became American.

Even here in Florida, also once a Spanish possesion, all land is measured in acres.

The predominant system of measure everwhere in the US, including among the Spanish-speaking community, is English units.

 
 
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