Re: [pct-l] When's an ounce not and ounce?

[Duane Younglove <merlin@zlink.net>]

At 07:49 AM 11/21/99 -0800, Ronald Moak wrote:
>Finally after letting the thoughts bounce around my empty brain a couple of
>hours, my mind wandered back some 20 years to college chemistry. The old
>term Specific Gravity (SP) popped back into my thoughts. I remembered a pint
>of fluid only weight 16 ounces when it's water.  Because water has a SP of
>1. All other fluids are either heaver or lighter than water. 


To be specific:

specific gravity of ethyl alcohol = 0.791
   "        "     " methyl alcohol = 0.810

Duane
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