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  2. Japanese submarine I-54 (1943) - Wikipedia

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    I-54 was laid down on 1 July 1942 by the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal at Yokosuka, Japan, with the name Submarine No. 627. [1] Launched on 4 May 1943, and on the same day was both renamed I-54, the second submarine of the name, and provisionally attached to the Kure Naval District. [1]

  3. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    At retail stores, the litre (spelled 'liter' in the U.S.) is a commonly used unit for volume, especially on bottles of beverages, and milligrams, rather than grains, are used for medications. Some other non- SI units are still in international use, such as nautical miles and knots in aviation and shipping, and feet for aircraft altitude.

  4. Litre - Wikipedia

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    The litre (Commonwealth spelling) or liter (American spelling) (SI symbols L and l, [1] other symbol used: ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm 3 ), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm 3 ) or 0.001 cubic metres (m 3 ).

  5. Kuznetsov NK-8 - Wikipedia

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    Maximum thrust: 93.2 kN (21,000 lbf) for take-off; Overall pressure ratio: 10.8; Bypass ratio: 1; Turbine inlet temperature: 1,140 K (870 °C)

  6. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The lambert (L) is a unit of luminance equal to 10 4 /π cd⋅m −2. The lumerg is a unit of luminous energy equal to 10 −7 lumen-seconds (100 nlm s). The talbot (T) is a unit of luminous energy equal to one lumen-second (1 lm⋅s). The einstein (E) has two conflicting definitions.

  7. TI-class supertanker - Wikipedia

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    2,800,000 barrels (450,000,000 L) [2] The TI class of supertankers comprises the ships TI Africa , TI Asia , TI Europe and TI Oceania (all names as of July 2004), where the "TI" refers to the ULCC tanker pool operator Tankers International.

  8. ISO/IEC 80000 - Wikipedia

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    ISO 80000-1:2022 revised ISO 80000-1:2009, which replaced ISO 31-0:1992 and ISO 1000:1992. [22] This document gives general information and definitions concerning quantities, systems of quantities, units, quantity and unit symbols, and coherent unit systems, especially the International System of Quantities (ISQ). [3]

  9. Koku - Wikipedia

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    The exact modern koku is calculated to be 180.39 litres, 100 times the capacity of a modern shō. [11] [d] This modern koku is essentially defined to be the same as the koku from the Edo period (1600–1868), [e] namely 100 times the shō equal to 64827 cubic bu in the traditional shakkanhō measuring system.