11-23-2002, 03:35 PM | #11 | |
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11-23-2002, 03:50 PM | #12 |
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I just can't understand why you stick to that stupid measurement system: you need a calculator each time you need to change unit... Metric is really much better, you need only move a point... 1 meter = 10decimeters = 100 centimeters = 1000 millimeters = 10^-3 kilometers... try that with miles, feet and inches!
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11-23-2002, 05:55 PM | #13 | |
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(something in chinese) CH3OH pretty neat.
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11-23-2002, 05:59 PM | #14 | |
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Metric for temperature and volume English for distance, mass, speed
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11-23-2002, 06:54 PM | #15 | |
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(something in chinese) CH3OH pretty neat.[/QUOTE]The same elemental letters - YES - the same elemental spellling - NOPE (just my usual rant about why your periodoc table has Aluminum, whereas the rest of the world has Aluminium ). I work for an American multi-national, which essentially has an Australian and Atlantic division. I get to do the occasional technical review of plants in the Atlantic division, which plunges me from kilolitres per hour, kilowatts, deg C straight into the world of US gallons per minute, BTU's, deg F. Such is the life of the Chemical Engineer
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11-24-2002, 01:02 AM | #16 |
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Very true, Davros. I did a double take the first time I saw things like "aluminium." (: On another note, my older brother is a chemical engineering professor! Very cool you all are, but what makes you guys tick, is beyond me. (:
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11-24-2002, 03:15 AM | #17 | |
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