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On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:37:26 -0600, the infamous Lew Hartswick
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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
Larry Jaques fired this volley in
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Doublecheck your figures. Water's 8.3lbs/gal and 64.5lbs/cu.ft.
That's 7.5 gallons per cu.ft. x 78, or 585 gallons if filled to the
top


I find 62.43lb/cu.ft. in my water constants reference....??


LLoyd

At what temperature is that? When we get down to the .0x lbs.
we better specify the temp and the value of G. :-)
...lew...


Egad, we missed the RH and sea level coefficients, too! Egg all over
our faces, wot?

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