But a cubicmeter is much more than a liter isnt it? m^3 would be a lot of liquid where a liter is like about 1 quart isn't it?
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yeah thats what i though a cubic meter of water is like almost a bathtub amount
neat thing about a liter is of pure water it is exactly 1kg of mass because of waters density.
I have never heard "deciliter" used outside of medical contexts, where "milligrams per decilitre" is the usual measurement for blood sugar or "grams per deciliter" for hemoglobin.
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Not really. It's close, but not exact.
If one wanted to do some trickery with stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes (e.g. high purity doubly labeled water), you could make a litre of water that would mass about 1.25 kilograms.
Last edited by Masark; 2012-12-14 at 05:07 PM.
Hell no. I love the biased graphs btw. I think of all the songs that have miles in them, have them replaced with kilometers (I would walk a thousand kilometers to see you!) and think how silly it sounds.
Metric just has a very scientific sound to me, that it sounds out of place in regular conversations.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Switching is easier than people would think, you just start teaching kids metric in schools, add the equivalent on labels so those used to imperial can still operate and within a few generations people are using metric as standard until imperial dies out.
Some things still hold true, trouser measurements always in inches most body weight done in st and lbs still here in the UK, but i naturally go to metric where as my mother gravitates to imperial. Every time i use the cooking scales I know she has been baking when it's on oz as i turn it on
So yes, it helps to have everyone using the same standard.
Why people even talk like that with time?
12:30 is Twelve thirty.
"Half past twelve" is too many words!
Short remark to all the Kelvin enthousiasts here: Considering the relevance of absolute 0 vs freezing temperature of water, swapping to Kelvin as main unit wouldn't make any sense.