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There's a difference between a U.S. pint (16 fl oz) and an Imperial pint (20 fl oz), which means that a pint's a pound only in the USA. An Imperial gallon of water weighs ten pounds, which means, (if I've got my old pre-metrication sums right) that a fluid ounce of water weighs an ounce. Now, it seems that the U.S. gallon is also different from the U.S. gallon, which make sense.
In metric terms, a litre (one cubic decimetre, 1000 cubic centimetres) of water weighs one kilogram (1000 grams).
Posted by c0redump on December 11, 2008 at 15:09:33 Pacific Time
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