Dear Gene, I agree with you and I suspect that this is how the oil
people actually measure quantities of oil. After all it is so easy to
do using the Plimsoll line in ships or running a road tanker over a
weigh bridge. This also allows for the differences in the density of
crude oil.
I recall an urban legend about buying petrol (in litres) in the
mornings before it expanded due to the rising temperature each day.
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On 2010/06/11, at 05:13 , <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> wrote:
For incompressible fluids e.g. oil (and even for methane) kilograms
or metric tons of mass are easier to visualize and would be better
than any unit of volume, and kg/s is best for rate of flow, liquid
or gas.
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:23:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:47649] Re: Oil Spill Technical Team Using SI
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
I can envision 1 L or a few, I can't envision 3
million. Would not 3000 m³ be a lot better than
throwing in "big counting words" in lieu of a
suitable unit or prefix?
I will probably take flack for this one, but SAE
metric practice is to use the cubic dekameter for
large amounts of water, such as irrigation, where
traditional measure would be the acre-foot. In that
notation, the leak would be 3 dam³/day.
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