Metric essay

[Bill Edgeworth]

Sorry to be so picky but:
EXACTLY is a dangerous word. The density of all materials is temperature dependent
gases, liquids and solids.

Aaron Willis wrote:

> At 09:55 AM 6/5/99 -0700, you wrote:
> .
> >And is not hard to relate things to example 1liter of water weighs about 1 kg
> >and it occupies an area 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm.
>
>         Actually a liter of water weighs EXACTLY one kg...one of the nicer things
> about the metric system.  One cc of water weighs one gram, etc...
>
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