On Tuesday 15 June 2010 19:27:34 John M. Steele wrote: > Yes, although Pat and some others prefer to visualize it as 10 ML. > Whatever works best for you, I guess. :)
My apartment building (four apartments) is about 1 ML, so I visualize it that way. But if I were to explain it to someone who doesn't live here, I'd say a megaliter is a ten-meter cube. I heard someone on NPR this morning trying to calculate the volume, saying a barrel is 55 gallons. He's thinking of the 200-liter drum, not the oil barrel. I also heard a figure of 10,000 tons per day, which is fairly close to the 10 ML/d figure, given the density of oil and the <1 sig fig. Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.
