Perhaps my faith in the packaging industry is misplaced or naive, but I
personally would suspect that there are many products packaged to at
least a �1 g precision. This may be less true in the retail market, but
medicines, expensive industrial supplies, etc. are probably quite
precisely packaged. Heck, consider all those jars of Fischer reagents!
Jim
Dennis Brownridge wrote:
>
> OK Gene, how about "ALMOST nothing is packaged to gram or milliliter
> precision."?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gene Mechtly
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Dennis Brownridge wrote:
> > > Nothing is packaged to gram or milliliter precision,...
> > Superglues are ofter packages in amounts of a gram or two.
> > Less than a gram of "nothing" is sufficient to tear the skin off
> > fingers after less than a second of contact!
> > Gene.
> >
> >
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