Uhhhhhhh I am Googling and I can't find anything that says water is
that pure water is that heavy while on planet earth. (I didn't look up
deuterium or tritium.)
I am getting a lot of conflicting answers and many bizzare websites
though.
If all else fails, use metric anyway!
The National Institute of Standards and Technology lists a pint as
28.875 cubic inches. Documented here:
http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Publications/appxc.cfm
28.875 in3 converts to 473.176473 cubic centimeters or 0.473176473
cubic decimeters. (Using NIST conversion tables)
One cubic decimeter of water = 1 liter of water = 1 kg of water.
therefore 28.875 cubic inches of water = 0.473176473 kg
0.473176473 kg converts to 1.04317556 pounds.
(In your ear archaic measurement system! I bypass you altogether!)
So (gasp! horror of horrors!) Wikipedia of all sources had it closest
this time! Are you as shocked as I am?
The Brits? For all I know they use Pascals, or inches of mercury to
measure pressure! I don't live there. They can do their own
conversions. LOL.
I'm talking inches someone on the list might find on a tape measure!
Sooooooooooooo.
Recalculating
1 psi = 27.679 inches depth in water. Wheeeeew finally!
Who has a headache? Asprin and Tylenol for the house!
(somewhere in all this I forget what it had to do with papercrete)
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spaceman wrote:
Your approximation of my approximation is approximately right. A gallon
of water actually weighs in the range of 8.33 pounds, approximately : P
In the UK it is about 20% heavier. Google it for yourself.
Spaceman
slurryguy wrote:
WARNING! Geek talk follows: Read at your own risk!
The old timey axiom is:
"A pint is a pound the world around."
One pint of water weighs exactly one pound. So, Bob has it exactly
right. There are 8 pints in a gallon, so a gallon OF WATER weighs
exactly 8 pounds.
NOT!
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