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The Imperial gallon was based on the concept that an Imperial fluid ounce of water would have a mass of one Avoirdupois ounce, and indeed 1 g/cm 3 ≈ 1.00224129 ounces per Imperial fluid ounce = 10.0224129 pounds per Imperial gallon. The density of precious metals could conceivably be based on Troy ounces and pounds, a possible cause of confusion.
Among them, a concentration of methane and ethane over 35 g/m 3 (0.035 oz/cu ft) will cause loss of consciousness or suffocation, a concentration of pentane and hexane over 45 g/m 3 (0.045 oz/cu ft) will have an anesthetic effect, and aromatic hydrocarbons will have more serious effects on health, blood toxicity, neurotoxicity, and cancer. If ...
In 1906 the Straits dollar of 24.26 g silver was fixed at 28 pence (or £1 = 8 4 ⁄ 7 dollars; ratio 28.4). Nearly similar gold standards were implemented in Japan in 1897, in the Philippines in 1903, and in Mexico in 1905 when the previous yen or peso of 24.26 g silver was redefined to approximately 0.75 g gold or half a U.S. dollar (ratio 32.3).
To make this into an equal-sided formula or equation, there needed to be a multiplying factor or constant that would give the correct force of gravity no matter the value of the masses or distance between them – the gravitational constant. Newton would need an accurate measure of this constant to prove his inverse-square law.
In 1860, there were 4.5 million Americans of Afro-American descent, 4 million of which were slaves, worth $3 billion. [118] They were mainly owned by southern planters of cotton and sugarcane. An estimated 60% of the value of farms in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina was in slaves, with less than a third in land and ...
2,000 pounds (910 kg) [5] 2.2 ... with twice the track capacity and twice as many tracks per cylinder as the 1301. The 1302 had one (for Model 1) or two (for Model 2 ...
The cost of dealing with the bushfires was expected to exceed the A$4.4 billion of the 2009 Black Saturday fires, [28] and tourism sector revenues fell by more than A$1 billion (US$690 million). [29] Economists estimated the bushfires may have cost A$100–230 billion (US$69–159 billion) in economic losses, [ e ] which became the costliest ...